African Journal on Privacy and Data Protection Volume 1
Managing Editor: Dr Akinola Ebunolu Akintayo
2024
ISBN: 978-1-7764485-6-2
Pages: 247
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
The African Journal on Privacy and Data Protection (the Journal) is domiciled in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos Akoka-Lagos, Nigeria and published once a year by the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) in South Africa. The Journal is peer reviewed and open access.
The Journal aims to promote African expertise and literature on Africa in the area of privacy and data protection. More specifically, the Journal aims to:
- foster African-centred research and knowledge generation on privacy and data protection;
- fill the critical knowledge gap in this area as well as encourage privacy and data protection discourse from an African perspective;
- facilitate access of African scholars to new and developing knowledge in this area as well as showcase African scholars and perspectives to the world.
Table of Contents
The quest for information privacy in Africa: A critique of the Makulilo-Yilma debate
Mujib Jimoh
A case for continental cooperation in the harmonisation of a regional legal framework for cross-border data transfers in Africa
Joy Wanjiku & Taria Khaoma
The Cyber and Data Protection Act of Zimbabwe: A critical analysis
Blessing Mutiro & Otto Saki
The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013: Child social media infl uencers and their right to privacy
Stacey Goliath
Trends and implications of Nigerian courts’ jurisprudence on privacy and data protection: Lessons from comparative foreign jurisprudence
Akinola E Akintayo
Cybersecurity, state surveillance and the right to online privacy in Nigeria: A call for synergy of law and policy
Aaron Olaniyi Salau
Digital surveillance and big data: Balancing the rights to privacy and security in Kenya
Charles A Khamala
The regulation of artificial intelligence through data protection laws: Insights from South Africa
Tara Davis & Wendy Trott
Regulating the privacy aspects of artificial intelligence systems in Nigeria: A primer
Emmanuel Salami & Iheanyi Nwankwo