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• TITLE: “A Person Is a Person through Other Persons”—A Critical Analysis of Privacy and Culture in Africa

  AUTHORS: Alex B. Makulilo

  KEYWORDS: African Society, Culture, Privacy, Regulation

  JOURNAL NAME: Beijing Law Review, Vol.7 No.3, August 22, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Four decades have passed since the discourse on privacy had emerged. Nonetheless it has been claimed that Africans do not value privacy. Commentators in the field of data privacy argue that Africans live in collectivist culture. The latter denies an individual a private sphere for exercising the right to privacy. Despite the over dominance of this scholarship, there remains a dissatisfying lack of comprehensive explanation for the concept and value of privacy in Africa. Partly this is due to a fallacy that Africa is a static and unchanging society. Also part of this assumption though intertwined in the first set is the over dominance of the claim that individualism as such is a pre-condition for privacy to take shape and develop. In this article I refute these generalised claims and argue that privacy is an evolving concept in Africa. Although at the moment concerns for privacy are generally relatively low compared to the Western individualist culture, such concerns are emerging and privacy regulation is developing as a response.