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COURSE · AFRICA DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE

Africa Data Protection Compliance: A Practitioner's Guide.

18 modules, every one grounded in documented African enforcement. From the team behind the African Enforcement Tracker: practitioner-grade training built for the African regulatory environment and the global frameworks that intersect with it.

§ 01About the Course

Built for Africa's regulatory reality.

Most data protection training available to lawyers and compliance professionals was designed for GDPR. It treats African frameworks as derivative, uses European case studies, and leaves practitioners underprepared for the regulatory environment they actually work in.

This course starts from African law and works outward. Every module is built around African statutes, regulations, and enforcement decisions drawn from our live Enforcement Tracker, and the tracker doubles as the course companion tool, with exercises that send you into the real enforcement record. Where global frameworks intersect with African operations, those intersections are addressed in context.

Designed for in-house counsel, startup founders, data protection officers and compliance officers at pan-African organisations: people who need to understand what the law actually requires.

18
Modules
Live
Tracker-Linked Cases
CPD
Accreditation Pending
Global
Scope incl. GDPR, CCPA, PIPL
Founding Cohort · In Session

The 30 founding seats are taken and the founding cohort is running the course now, with lifetime access as the founding perk. Enrolment for the next cohort opens when the founding run completes; join the list to be told first.

COURSE WALKTHROUGH · 75 SECONDS · IN PRODUCTION
See it before you enrol

A 75-second walkthrough of the course.

The modules, the tracker-linked case studies and the editions, shown on screen. The video is in production and embeds here when ready.

§ 02Course Modules
18 modules
01
Foundations
The African data protection landscape, the enforcement reality, and how the major frameworks compare.
02
Lawful Basis
The grounds for processing personal data across African and global frameworks, and how they diverge.
03
Subject Rights
Data subject access, rectification, erasure, objection, and portability across all covered jurisdictions.
04
DPIA
When a Data Protection Impact Assessment is required, how to conduct one, and what the Worldcoin case teaches.
05
Cross-Border
Transfer mechanisms, adequacy, standard contractual clauses, and Africa-specific constraints on international transfers.
06
Breach
Breach notification timelines, regulatory recipients, and documentation requirements across all covered jurisdictions.
07
DPO
Data Protection Officer obligations, qualifications, and positioning across frameworks that require one.
08
Vendors
Data processing agreements, processor due diligence, and third-party obligation clauses.
09
Children
Heightened protections for children's data, age verification obligations, and consent requirements.
10
Marketing
Direct marketing, electronic communications, consent, and opt-out requirements across Africa.
11
Biometrics
Biometric data as special category: obligations, impact assessments, and lessons from enforcement.
12
HR
Employee data, monitoring, recruitment, and the employment relationship under African data protection law.
13
Health
Health data obligations, clinical research, and sector-specific requirements across African jurisdictions.
14
Fintech
Financial services data obligations, open banking, and the intersection of data law with financial regulation.
15
Telco
Telecommunications data obligations, traffic data, and communications interception frameworks.
16
Public Sector
Public body obligations, government data processing, and regulatory enforcement trends in the public sector.
17
Enforcement
Every action in our live tracker, analysed. What regulators are actually penalising and why it matters.
18
Future Law
Emerging frameworks, bill tracking, and how to build compliance programmes that remain current.
§ 03Editions & Pricing
Kenya available now

The course ships as editions. Each edition teaches the same 18-module core through one jurisdiction's statutes and enforcement record, so the cases you study are the cases your regulator actually decided. The Kenya Edition is available now; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa editions are in preparation and open to the same waitlist; the Pan-African Edition adds the comparative layer for counsel working across markets.

Founding Cohort · Filled
$67

The 30 founding seats are taken; the cohort is in session with lifetime access honoured permanently. Founding pricing will not repeat.

Kenya Edition
$149

The full course with every case drawn from Kenya's enforcement record, plus 12 months of updates. KES and M-Pesa pricing shown at checkout.

Pan-African Edition
$349

Every jurisdiction layer plus the comparative modules and tracker access, built for counsel operating across markets.

Team Pack · 5 Seats

Five seats for 3.5× the individual price: train the whole compliance function. Most of our seats are employer-paid; forward this page to whoever owns the training budget.

Corporate Cohort

A live, customised cohort for your organisation, taught on the cases from your sector and jurisdictions. Scoped and quoted on a call. Talk to us.

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