Welcome to AfCFTA Legal (AfL):
Conversations on African Law and Society
AfL is an initiative born out of ongoing research work on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Consumer Data Privacy laws, conducted through the College Scholar Program at Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
The information and viewpoints represented in this blog are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
any entities they represent.
Short answer, I don’t think so. Really it is a very complicated question that cannot simply be answered with a Yes or No. Take, for example, last Thursday, the Nigerian guardian newspaper published an...
Data localization is any policy or legal requirement mandating that data created within a country’s borders must remain stored and processed within that country. Should Nigeria take steps to ensure...
Two days ago I read a research paper by Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, titled “Nigeria in Search of Democracy.” It was written 42 years ago, in 1983: a period when Nigeria’s civilian...
In the first months of President Trump’s second presidency, I have watched the administration repeatedly test the boundaries of the enumerated powers granted to the executive branch by the U.S...
The federal republic of Nigeria not only has a constitutional right to privacy, it now also has enforceable guidelines that are designed to protect that right in our digital age. Nigeria’s 2023...
Raise your hand if (before reading the title of my post) you thought Nigeria had no data privacy legislation. Two weeks ago, both my hands would have been high in the air. To my rescue, I...
A friend, who we’ll call B, tells me that in Germany, everyone receives the option to reject cookies on any website they visit. I’ve never been to Germany (or Europe) so I cannot confirm...
A Brief Introduction Data is unprocessed facts, figures or numbers. Data, by itself, is meaningless. It is rudimentary and unrefined. For example: 30 years old, Black, Singer, likes ice cream. This is...
A conversation on Social Jurisprudence (3 minutes read time)...