The Delicate Dance of Tech Titans and Sovereign States: The Geopolitical Stakes Surrounding Data Ownership in Africa

In 2017, Kenya would go on to conduct what would become one of its most hotly contested elections to date, against the backdrop of the Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2016.  Facebook, present-day Meta, would play a complicit hand in undermining this young democracy’s sovereignty via the exploitation of the country's data.