We combine legal analysis with empirical research to produce work that reflects what African technology law actually requires in practice.
Law Lab Africa is an independent research and advisory consultancy specialising in data protection, technology policy, and digital governance across Africa.
Our work combines legal analysis with the enforcement record. We continuously monitor enforcement decisions, regulatory guidance and legislative developments across the African jurisdictions whose regulators publish, and we map the legal position across all 54 AU member states.
We work from primary sources. Every analysis is grounded in the legislation, the enforcement record and the regulatory correspondence, not in secondhand summaries or adapted European frameworks. Most major African jurisdictions now have comprehensive data protection legislation in force, and enforcement is active.
That monitoring is the foundation of the advisory work: we read the enforcement decisions, review the guidance notes and follow the regulatory correspondence as they publish. The advice reflects what regulators are actually doing, not only what the statutes say.
Wanjiku founded Law Lab Africa to turn African regulatory activity into structured, verifiable research that organisations can act on. She is an Advocate and works across data protection, AI governance, digital assets and technology policy for companies operating in African markets and beyond.
She edits the Africa DP Enforcement Tracker and the firm's research. Her byline appears on the analyses and reports she has reviewed, and everything published under the Research Wing masthead, Editor: Wanjikũ Karanja, carries her editorial sign-off.
Law Lab Africa works with a network of specialist contributors and local counsel across jurisdictions, and names individuals on the work they author.
Every analysis is grounded in the legislation, subsidiary regulations, regulatory guidance, and the enforcement record. We do not produce generic compliance frameworks dressed up as Africa-specific work.
Our monitoring infrastructure tracks regulatory developments across African jurisdictions. We read enforcement decisions, attend to guidance notes, and follow regulatory correspondence in real time.
We write for compliance professionals and in-house counsel. Our deliverables are designed to be used directly rather than to generate follow-on work, and they are precise about what the law requires and what it does not.
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