African Data Privacy Laws

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.

List of 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.

About the author

Alex B. Makulilo(Dr.jur) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Information, Health and Medical Law (IGMR), Faculty of Law at the University of Bremen in Germany. Prior to that Makulilo worked as a Senior Lecturer of Information and Communications Law at the Open University of Tanzania, the academic rank he still holds today. He is an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. Makulilo is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Privacy Law Library (http://www.worldlii.org/int/special/privacy) of the World Legal Information Institute. He possesses considerable and diverse experience both in academia and legal industry with a keen research, teaching, and practitioner focus on Information and Communication Technology Law as it relates to privacy, data protection, intellectual property, cybersecurity, electronic commerce, and internet governance in Africa. Makulilo has published numerous articles and book reviews on these subjects in international peer-review journals and has presented at national and international conferences. His first book Privacy and Data Protection in Africa (2014) is a pioneering work for data privacy in Africa. Makulilo holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Master of Laws in Information and Communications Technology Law from the University of Oslo in Norway and Doctor Juris (suma cum laude) from the University of Bremen in Germany.

Summary

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. 

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“The proper use of section headings … is greatly helpful for processing the substance in the first read and locating the information when needed later on. The comprehensive, detailed lists of references, legislations, cases and additional resources … make them competent as convenient reference books for students, researchers and practitioners studying data protection law in those jurisdictions. … serve as valuable sources of comparative materials, and thus help gain a better understanding of other data protection regimes.” (Jiahong Chen, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Vol. 25 (3), 2017)

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"The proper use of section headings ... is greatly helpful for processing the substance in the first read and locating the information when needed later on. The comprehensive, detailed lists of references, legislations, cases and additional resources ... make them competent as convenient reference books for students, researchers and practitioners studying data protection law in those jurisdictions. ... serve as valuable sources of comparative materials, and thus help gain a better understanding of other data protection regimes." (Jiahong Chen, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Vol. 25 (3), 2017)

Product details

• Assisted by: Ale B Makulilo (Editor), Alex B Makulilo (Editor), Alex B. Makulilo (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319837086
• ISBN: 978-3-31-983708-6
• No. of pages: 379
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 21 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 605 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 379 p. 2 illus.
• Series: Law, Governance and Technology Series; Issues in Privacy and Data Protection; Law, Governance and Technology Series; Issues in Privacy and Data Protection
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; B, Law, Law and Criminology, Mass Media, Computers, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Legal aspects of IT, Legal Aspects of Computing, Law and legislation