Malesela John Lamola is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg's Institute for Intelligent Systems. He obtained his BTh degree from UNISA, the PhD in Philosophy and Theology from Edinburgh University, and an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, USA). During the 1980s he worked at the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC). His current work is focused on the ramifications of technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the cultural and political sovereignty of Africa.