In Search for a Role: The African Union and Digital Policies in Africa

This article considers the role of African Union (AU) in developing digital policy instruments that apply across continent. The AU has launched a series policies are meant to guide legislation member states past decade. explores extent which such effective shaping law and policymaking countries. It finds set methodological flaws initiatives undermine practical effect handful AU-led instruments. Not only adopted through process lacking dynamism but also substance falls short international benchmarks, thereby undercutting their underlying objectives. submits policymakers should carve an original helps make timely, dynamic substantively robust.