African Data Privacy Laws

Author: Alex B. Makulilo
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783319473154
Published In: December 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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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-regional levels 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.

Part I Overview

1. The Context of Data Privacy in Africa, Alex B. Makulilo

Part II National Data Privacy Laws2. Data Protection in North Africa,Tunisia and Morocco, Alex B. Makulilo

3. Information Privacy in Nigeria, Iheanyi Samuel Nwankwo

4. Data Protection Law in Burkina Faso, Krissiamba Moumouni Ouiminga

5. Data Protection in Zimbabwe, Caroline Ncube

6. Privacy and Data Protection in Uganda, Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala

7. Towards Data Protection Law in Ethiopia, Alebachew Birhanu Enyew

8. Data Privacy Law Reforms in Tanzania, Patricia Boshe

9. Data Protection Law in South Africa, Anneliese Roos

10. The Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Ghana, Dominic N. Dagbanja

11. Data Protection in Cape Verde: An Analysis of the State of the Art, Joao Luis Traca Pedro and Marques Gaspar