Publication

This paper discusses the African Union’s 2014 Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection and examines how the African states should respond to cybercrime. The author provides an overview of the cybercrime provisions in the convention and argues that it is a positive step toward pushing African states into taking proactive domestic measures. He then provides a list of recommendations for African states on how to deal with cybersecurity. These include ratifying the African Union’s Convention and taking steps to ratify the Council of Europe’s Budapest convention on cybercrime.