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New technologies and the threat to sovereignty in Africa

Produced in collaboration with the ETC Group, this special issue presents a range of articles discussing the staggering developments in bio- and nanotechnology and the alarming implications for the African continent and the global South at large. Firoze Manji and Molly Kane outline the sheer scale of this ‘technological tsunami’, the immense challenges for Africa’s self-determination and the action by activists to challenge the corporate assault on bio-sovereignty.

New technologies and the threat to sovereignty in Africa