1CREATIVE ARTICLE WRITINGThe article aims at focusing on how the Africa of my dreams would be like in theperspective of fourth industrial revolution. The article discusses my hopes and dreams along withmy imagination of future Africa. Africa represents the continent which is one of the mostenduring and old landmass existing in the world. The country has always been home to slaveryuntil the time when the Portuguese arrived and gradually transformed slavery into an exportbusiness. The fuelling of the agricultural production by the African slaves caught the attention ofthe Dutch and Europeans who were in search of routes for trade. Although the African continent is rich in human and natural resource along withecological, cultural and economic diversity it is considered underdeveloped (Iliffe 2017). Thesuffering of most of the African nations is related to the corruption, military dictatorships, war,civil unrest, deeper poverty and underdevelopment. The countries in Africa gets a clarificationfrom the UN as one of the least developed. There has been numerous strategies implemented forthe development of these countries but have failed miserably in yielding expected results. Inspite of being doomed in economic slavery and perpetual poverty the continent is believed tohave immense potentialThe population of Africa is booming and whose future will be home to around 4.4 billionpeople that accounts for close to four times the current population. Presently, Africa representsone of the fastest growing continents where the expected GDP growth for the future mustbegrow by close to 6 percent on the annual basis (Zoogah, Peng and Woldu 2015). The rise ofFourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) added to the intricacies of the future economies along withemployment outcomes. Thus, FIR stood at equivalence to the unexplored growth in presence ofinternet connectivity and digitization (Yeoh 2017). Internet connectivity and digitization have theability of driving Africa ahead and help in encouraging the process of innovation, propel newer

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