Full Description
This volume presents analyses of data protection systems and of 26 jurisdictions with data protection legislation in Africa, as well as additional selected countries without comprehensive data protection laws. In addition, it covers all sub-regional and regional data privacy policies in Africa. Apart from analysing data protection law, the book focuses on the socio-economic contexts, political settings and legal culture in which such laws developed and operate. It bases its analyses on the African legal culture and comparative international data privacy law.
In Africa protection of personal data, the central preoccupation of data privacy laws, is on the policy agenda. The recently adopted African Union Cyber Security and Data Protection Convention 2014, which is the first and currently the only single treaty across the globe to address data protection outside Europe, serves as an illustration of such interest. In addition, there are data protection frameworks at sub-regionallevels for West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. Similarly, laws on protection of personal data are increasingly being adopted at national plane. Yet despite these data privacy law reforms there is very little literature about data privacy law in Africa and its recent developments. This book fills that gap.
Contents
Part I Overview -- 1. The Context of Data Privacy in Africa by Alex B. Makulilo.- Part II National Data Privacy Laws -- 2. Data Protection in North Africa,Tunisia and Morocco by Alex B. Makulilo.- 3. Information Privacy in Nigeria by Iheanyi Samuel Nwankwo.- 4. Data Protection Law in Burkina Faso by Krissiamba Moumouni Ouiminga.- 5. Data Protection in Zimbabwe by Caroline Ncube.- 6. Privacy and Data Protection in Uganda by Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala.- 7. Towards Data Protection Law in Ethiopia by Alebachew Birhanu Enyew.- 8. Data Privacy Law Reforms in Tanzania by Patricia Boshe.- 9. Data Protection Law in South Africa by Anneliese Roos.- 10. The Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Ghana by Dominic N. Dagbanja.- 11. Data Protection in Cape Verde: An Analysis of the State of the Art by João Luís Traça Pedro and Marques Gaspar.- 12. Protection of Personal Data in Senegal by Patricia Boshe.- 13. Data Protection of the Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar by Alex B. Makulilo.- 14. Data Protection Regulation in Burundi by Patricia Boshe.- 15. Data Protection in Kenya by Alex B. Makulilo and Patricia Boshe.- 16. Privacy and Data Protection in Lesotho by Alex B. Makulilo and Kuena Mophethe.- 17. Data Protection in Angola by João Luís Traça and Francisca Correia.- 18. Data Protection in Mozambique - inception phase by João Luís Traça and Lídia Neves.- Part III -- Comparative Conclusions 19. Future of Data Protection in Africa by Alex B. Makulilo.
