ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to examine the African Union cybersecurity policy underscoring how it was domesticated and enforced in various African countries and its implications on democratic institutions in the country. Existing literature on cybercrime is dominantly focused on the global north with relatively little known about the issue in the global south, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter fills this gap and examines the AU cybersecurity policy, taking into account how the regional institutional protocol created the avenue for various African national governments to suppress opposition voices in the guise of enforcing this policy. It begins by providing a background to the development of the AU Convention on cybersecurity. The chapter examines the main features of the Convention. This is followed by a brief illumination of the interrelated concepts of cybercrime and cyberterrorism.
