The reality of the internet raises questions about our experience of the world. In the name of positivist science the colonial enterprise constructed a whole hierarchy of civilizations, putting Africa at the bottom of the scale - an issue of power. African society's relationship to the internet should be viewed within the general context of the encounter between Africa and techno-scientific rationality. The internet raises large questions about African received experience and lived experience, and the African conception of time. The internet's instantaneous time challenges the cyclical and linear nature of time in African cultures. Also, the its virtual space has little meaning in the African context of the generally two-dimensional - the visible and invisible.