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Cross-jurisdictional analysis, comparative overviews, and practitioner guides — written by ATLPF contributors and verified by subject matter experts.

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How Africa actually regulates digital finance: a comparative guide to fintech law

NigeriaKenyaGhanaTanzaniaUgandaRwandaZimbabweZambiaSouth AfricaMoroccoEgyptAlgeriaMauritiusEthiopiaNamibiaMalawiMadagascarBotswanaLiberiaSudanMozambiqueSouth SudanComorosDjiboutiGambiaGuineaMauritaniaBeninCôte d'IvoireGuinea-BissauNigerSenegalCameroonCongo (Republic)Equatorial GuineaGabonCentral African Republic

Ademola Adekunbi · Published June 2026

If you set out to find "the fintech law" of an African country, you will usually fail, not because the activity is unregulated, but because there is rarely a single statute to find. Across the ATLPF L…

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Switched off: surveillance powers, internet shutdowns, and the law behind them in Africa

South AfricaRwandaZimbabweUgandaNigeriaNamibiaBotswanaEgyptTunisiaTanzaniaKenyaCameroonEthiopiaBeninSierra LeoneSenegalSudanZambiaCabo VerdeComorosGabon

Ademola Adekunbi · June 2026

The most important thing the Digital Rights sweep surfaced is not that African states restrict communications, it is how they do it. Across the jurisdictions surveyed, the legal authority used to inte

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One law, many jobs: how African cybercrime statutes carry data protection, fintech, and digital rights obligations

MalawiCameroonBeninCongo (DRC)NigeriaEgyptDjiboutiSouth AfricaSudanZimbabweGuineaKenyaTanzaniaUgandaGhanaRwandaAngola

Ademola Adekunbi · June 2026

A meaningful number of African countries do not have a separate data protection act, a separate cybercrime act, a separate fintechfraud regime, and a separate digitalrights statute sitting side by sid

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Data protection law across Africa: a comparative overview

AlgeriaAngolaBeninBotswanaBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCentral African RepublicComorosCongo (DRC)Congo (Republic)Côte d'IvoireDjiboutiEgyptEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGambiaGuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaLesothoLiberiaLibyaMadagascarMalawiMauritaniaMauritiusMoroccoMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNigeriaRwandaSenegalSierra LeoneSouth AfricaSouth SudanSudanTanzaniaTunisiaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe

Ademola Adekunbi · June 2026

The oldest comprehensive data protection statute tracked in this Library was enacted in January 2001, in Cabo Verde cvdp2001. The most recent, The Gambia's Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act gmp

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How African data protection authorities are actually enforcing the law

NigeriaKenyaSouth AfricaGhanaRwandaEgypt

Ademola Adekunbi · June 2026

A data protection law is only as real as its enforcement. Across Africa the past decade has produced a wave of new statutes, comprehensive frameworks modelled, to varying degrees, on the GDPR, but the

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The unfinished map: legislative trajectories in African data protection law

NigeriaMalawiLiberiaSierra LeoneMozambiqueNamibiaGambiaCameroonDjiboutiTunisiaAngolaAlgeriaNigerSenegalBeninCôte d'IvoireGuinea-BissauBurundiEritreaSouth SudanSudanLibyaCentral African Republic

Ademola Adekunbi · June 2026

African data protection law is most often described as a snapshot, a count of which countries "have a law." That framing flatters the settled jurisdictions and misreads the rest. The more useful quest

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