A paper presented during the seminar organized by department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam on 6 th May 2016 at Nkrumah Hall _________________________________________________________________ The Death of God and the Rise of Homo-Deus Megatrend: Fromthe Old Producer-Oriented Valuestothe User-Oriented Values Shukrani K. Mbirigenda 1 Abstract The author argues that the major change in the world history in the 1980s brought with it what Friedrich Nietzsche prophesized as the death of God and the rise of Superman. While in the era of the reign of God, values were created, bargained, vetted, accepted and instituted in the society, the author argues that in the recent few decades under globalization, ǁith ŵaŶ ďeĐoŵiŶg god ;Hoŵo-Deus), anyone can produce values and live or throw them to the society without the vetting process;it is what the author calls the user- oriented value production system. However, values should be bargained, vetted, accepted and instituted by those who have the knowledge, the philosophers. The philosophers were and still should be the producers and the gatekeepers of the values production system. However, with the death of God being replaced by ICT under liberal democracy, anybody is a producer and gatekeeper of values. This deteriorates and ultimately destroys, not only community values but also the concept of universal value. The author therefore, recommends going back to the drawing board and start to consult, listen and trust the professionals than the user-oriented knowledge and values because values should be a result of systematic, organized and thoroughreasoning process. Lastly, the author concludes that despite of the shortcomings, if it is well directed and nurtured, the Homo-Deus value production system has a potency of coming up with a new value on environment and possibly religion on Green God. Introduction Years after Friedrich NietzsĐhe puďlished his ǁork Thus Spake )arathustra, iŶ ǁhiĐh he proclaimed the madman prophecy on the death of God and the rise of superman. The superman is a man without external morality but with self-made morality dubbed as master morality against the slave morality created by the fear of God. The 1980s witnessed two world events that intensified in the 1990s and 2000s. These events were the collapse of the countries that practised socialism and communism, which made capitalism as the sole socio-economic system, the era that Francis Fukuyama (1996) eĐhoiŶg NietzsĐhe Đalled the eŶd of historLJ iŶ his ďook The EŶd of HistorLJ aŶd the Last Man. 1 Shukrani K. Mbirigenda (PhD) is a lecturer of Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) of the University of Dar es Salaam