The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AEAfCFTA) is a revolutionary treaty of the African Union (AU) which creates an African single market to guarantee the free movement of persons, capital, goods and services. The AEAfCFTA is geared towards enabling seamless trade among African countries. The single market relies heavily on the processing of the personal data of persons resident within and outside the AU, thereby necessitating an effective data protection regime. However, the data protection regime across Africa is fragmented, with each country either having a distinct data protection framework or none at all. This lack of a uniform continental framework threatens to clog the wheels of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), because by demanding compliance with the various data protection laws across Africa, free trade will be inhibited, the very problem the AEAfCFTA seeks to remediate. These concerns are considered and applicable solutions are proposed to ensure the successful implementation of the AfCFTA.

《建立非洲大陆自由贸易区协定》（AEAfCFTA）是非洲联盟（AU）的一项革命性条约，它创建了一个非洲单一市场，以保证人员、资本、商品和服务的自由流动。AEAfCFTA 旨在实现非洲国家之间的无缝贸易。单一市场严重依赖于处理非盟境内外居民的个人数据，因此需要有效的数据保护制度。然而，整个非洲的数据保护制度是分散的，每个国家要么有不同的数据保护框架，要么根本没有。缺乏统一的大陆框架可能会阻碍非洲大陆自由贸易区 (AfCFTA) 的运转，因为通过要求遵守非洲各地的各种数据保护法，自由贸易将受到抑制，这正是 AEAfCFTA 试图解决的问题。考虑到这些问题并提出了适用的解决方案，以确保 AfCFTA 的成功实施。