Abstract

The emergence of artificial intelligence, robotic innovations, technology and computers have created a world that has enabled people to have interactions and experiences that would otherwise be impossible. While the African continent is not a significant producer of many of these emerging technologies, it seems, however, to be an enthusiastic consumer of most of them. Although there have been tremendous positive effects of these technologies, such as the smartphone, on the daily lives of Africans, the effect of some of them on African people’s way of life raises a number of ethical, moral and cultural questions. One such technology is the sex robot. Slowly but surely, sexual relations are shifting from humans as moral beings to sex robots. This shift in sexual relationships raises a number of ethical questions for indigenous African communities. It is against this backdrop that the current chapter seeks to explore the features of African culture that might be compromised with the emergence of sex robots given that indigenous African people are conservative when it comes to issues of sex and sexual relations.