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International Journal of Political Science and Development Vol. 6(6), pp. 163–168, August, 2018. DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2018.044 ISSN: 2360-784X
Research Paper
Ethnic Science Fiction in Africa’s Political Sphere: the drivers of Technoscience
Technics Ikechi Nwosu
The African Science Fiction Project, Owerri, Nigeria. Email: frontpagetechnics@gmail.com
Accepted 30 August 2018
Necessity is
the mother of invention. Conflict is a necessity situation. Visions of
ethnic superiority in science fiction imageries are capable of creating
conflict situations in real life that can change the parameters for
ethnic competition in Africa from all other issues to quest for
dominance or supremacy in technological attainments in the real world.
This way, ethnicity or ethnocentrism can be harnessed for Africa’s
technoscientific growth. The argument in this paper is predicated on two
axioms or basic statements: first, science fiction drives technological
innovation in the real world and second, ethnic competition can manifest
as ethnic technoscientific identity competition, given the necessary
fuel. This paper does not focus on science fiction as a source of, or
stimulant for, technoscientific innovation (for this is true but is the
subject of another discourse) but rather focuses on ethnic science
fiction as a peculiar kind of science fiction that has the power to
spark off ethnic competition for technoscientific identity manifestation
in real life. The paper puts ethnicity at the centre of technology
politics in multi-ethnic African states and recommends the construction
of ethnic innovation policies in these states. The theoretical construct
of this paper adopts ethnic competition theory and expands it to include
non-economic competition such as image-identity competition and
competence competition, thus amplifying the psychological dimensions of
this framework. Cite This Article As: Nwosu, T.I.,(2018). Ethnic Science Fiction in Africa’s Political Sphere: the drivers of Technoscience. Int. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 6(6) 163-168
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