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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:10:48 +0100
From: "SPT 2019" <spt2019@easychair.org>
To: Augustine Farinola <farinola@dominicaninstitute.org>
Subject: SPT 2019 notification for paper 73
Sender: spt2019@easychair.org

Dear Augustine Farinola, 

Congratulations! 
 
On behalf of the Program Committee, it is my great pleasure to inform you that your submission, AFRICAN STATES AND TECHNOLOGICAL POWER, has been accepted for presentation at the Twenty-First Biannual Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas from May 20-22, 2019.
 
All presentations submitted to SPT are peer reviewed, so you should take pride in knowing that your work is respected by professional colleagues. The suggested format for paper presentations is 20 to 25 minutes of presentation time with 5-10 minutes for Q&A; most panels will have a 90 minute slot on the program.
 
Registration is required for all participants in a presentation or panel. Registration will open around January 30th. If you are unable to attend the conference, we would appreciate it if you would withdraw your submission from www.EasyChair.Org before March 15 or contact us at info@spt2019.org

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There are several cheaper lodging options available (starting at $51 per night); see www.SPT2019.org

Additional information on the 21st Biennial Meeting of SPT will follow in the coming weeks.

Conference website: https://www.spt2019.org/
Email address: info@spt2019.org
 
We hope to see you in College Station in May!

Best,
Martin Peterson, Glen Miller, and the Program Committee


----------------------- REVIEW 1 ---------------------
PAPER: 73
TITLE: AFRICAN STATES AND TECHNOLOGICAL POWER
AUTHORS: Augustine Farinola

Overall evaluation: 3 (strong accept)

----------- Overall evaluation -----------
Based on the abstract, this paper seem very interesting, and speaks to prejudicial perception that Africa (taken as a collective monolithic cultural and historical region) is un(der)-developed. The author asks about the relationship between technology and African development. Should the development of Africa involve the imitation of Europe and Western culture? Is there anything particularly "African" that can and should be retained? These are, ultimately, the classic postcolonial questions, and the author suggests that they are still quite relevant. The author does not indicate which scholarly resources they will draw upon, thus my only concern is whether the author will situate their analysis in the appropriate historical and scholarly context.