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.
Nigeria’s Significant Economic Presence (SEP) tax framework allows the government to tax qualifying foreign companies that derive income from economic activities involving Nigerian users, even...
When I prod Nigerians, friends, classmates and mentors about the possibility of the Nigerian government sharing in the value that foreign digital global platforms gain from our data they are...
I spent the majority of my summer reading consumer fraud cases in the New York Attorney General’s Office. No case wasthe same, I read cases in every industry you could imagine: automobile, internet...
Today is Friday, July 10th, 2026, and for the past ten weeks I’ve been working as an intern in the Consumer Frauds department of the Attorney General’s (AG) office in New York City. It is...
In democratic countries, the media is the arena where politics and political ideas are framed and contested. Citizens rely on the media to understand the condition of their country or stay informed...
Yes, it is true that African countries provide valuable data services for foreign digital platforms like Meta, Google, Amazon, and more. For example, in these foreign platforms, raw data from Africa...
I am taking a graduate policy seminar on Artificial Intelligence. Today’s topic is “AI – Ethical problems and Legal solutions.” My amazing professor, Dr James Rogers, has invited the...
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...