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AI Governance Audit: Africa's First Testing Framework

Singapore's AI Verify is used by 100+ organizations across 25 countries. No African equivalent exists. This is the African adaptation.

Why now

Nigeria's Digital Economy Bill gives NITDA binding powers over AI, with fines reaching NGN 30 million or 2% of gross revenue. Egypt's PDPL grace period ends November 2026. Kenya's AI Bill is progressing. No African country has an equivalent national AI testing framework, so organisations are being measured against obligations with no shared method for measuring their own readiness.

The five principles

AI Verify's governance model, adapted for Africa

Transparency

Whether the organisation can explain its AI use, in plain terms, to the people it affects.

Fairness

Whether outcomes are tested across the groups affected, and whether the reference data is honest about its gaps.

Safety

Whether risk is assessed before deployment, monitored after it, and reversible when something goes wrong.

Accountability

Whether a named person owns each system, and whether the record would survive an audit.

Human Agency

Whether a person can review, override, or contest a consequential AI decision.

African regulatory fragments

Three obligations, three different shapes

Nigeria AI Bill and NITDA

The Digital Economy Bill gives NITDA binding powers over AI, with penalties reaching NGN 30 million or 2% of gross revenue. Obligations concentrate on high-risk systems and on the organisations deploying them.

Egypt PDPL

The Personal Data Protection Law grace period ends November 2026. Automated decision-making and profiling carry explicit obligations, and consent must be demonstrable.

Kenya AI Bill

Kenya's proposed framework sets duties around transparency, impact assessment, and human oversight for systems used in decisions affecting the public.

What the audit delivers

A score, a gap report, and a sequence

Governance maturity score

A single score out of 100, broken down across all five principles so you can see which one is carrying the risk.

Gap report

Each principle assessed against the evidence behind it, with gaps ranked and mapped to the African obligations they touch.

Prioritised remediation

A sequenced plan with owners and dates, ordered weakest principle first rather than by ease of fixing.

Start here

Run the free governance scan. Twenty questions across the five principles, and you get a maturity score plus a gap report ordered weakest first.

Run the free scan
Pricing

Transparent, fixed pricing

Single Audit

$2,500

One organisation, one scan.

  • Governance maturity score across all five principles
  • Evidence review for each principle
  • Gap report mapped to Nigerian, Egyptian and Kenyan obligations
  • Prioritised remediation sequence

Enterprise

$7,500

Multi-site or multi-system organisations.

  • Everything in the Single Scan
  • Coverage across multiple business units or AI systems
  • Remediation roadmap with owners and dates
  • Review session with leadership before sign-off

Measure governance before a regulator does

Book a governance audit, or request the governance readiness checklist first.

Methodology

Built on the five governance principles set out by the AI Verify Foundation, adapted to the Nigerian, Egyptian and Kenyan regulatory fragments that apply today.

The audit assesses governance maturity against the five principles. It is not a certification and not legal advice, and it is not a statutory audit or a regulatory attestation. If you need formal certification (ISO 42001) or regulatory attestation, that's a separate engagement. Penalty figures are the maxima set out in the relevant instruments.