Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Law in Africa (Routledge Studies on Law in Africa) - Hardcover

Adeola, Aderomola

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032830042 ISBN 13: 9781032830049

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book examines artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa from a rights-based perspective. In recent years, technology has emerged as a significant disruptor, with AI, robotics and computer advancement in particular driving changes in societies around the world. There are evident and daunting implications across contexts and continents, and many countries are rapidly seeking to define patterns of solutions that can foster effective protection against the more challenging impacts of AI.

This book considers the consequences of AI for civil and political rights, social, economic, and cultural rights, and collective rights in Africa, with particular reference to the African Charter. It considers how AI risks violating the rights enshrined in the Charter and considers how the norms outlined in the African Charter can provide the basis for a response. Overall, this book examines how a rights-based approach to AI can be realized, emphasising the imperatives for steering implementation.

Providing an important guide for strategic action for the protection of human rights in the context of AI, this book will be an important read for researchers, policymakers and students in the fields of human rights and technology in Africa.

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About the Author

Aderomola Adeola is an international legal scholar with expertise in human rights, artificial intelligence and migration law and policy. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Pretoria and also has a masters in law from the Harvard Law School. She has taught extensively on AI governance to policymakers in Africa and currently leads a chapter of the International Law Association on Artificial Intelligence, New Technologies and International Law. She has consulted extensively for governments and international organizations including as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Law and Policy Expert/Advisor for the UNESCO Liaison Office to the African Union, UNECA and the government of Ethiopia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032830042
• ISBN 13: 9781032830049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178