African Law, for Everyone
The Laws.Africa legislation commons makes African legislation freely available to everyone. The commons is supported by the community and anyone can help out. You can also build apps and services using the machine-friendly Content API.
Our projects
Laws.Africa Legislation Commons
An ever-growing, community-maintained collection of African legislation.
Gazettes.Africa
The largest digital collection of free African Gazettes.
Open By-laws South Africa
Making South Africa's municipal by-laws easy to find, read and share.
Faster, cheaper legislation consolidation
The Indigo Platform is an open source cloud platform that significantly reduces the time and cost of maintaining and consolidating legislation.
Indigo simplifies online and print publishing, record keeping and research by treating legislation as data.
Learn about the Indigo PlatformUse Laws.Africa Content to Power Your Business and Research
Use machine-friendly legislation and metadata to build apps and services that make it easier for users to find, work with and understand African legislation.
The Laws.Africa legislation commons is available as structured, machine-friendly Akoma Ntoso XML through the Laws.Africa Content API.
Laws.Africa Content APILatest articles
Machine-friendly legislation – who’s doing what
A sample of tools and projects in the field of machine-friendly legislation
How we built an automated glossary for Namibian legislation
How we used legislation-as-data to create an automated glossary to explore over 3000 defined terms in Namibian law.
Using by-laws to tackle local service delivery
How Cape Agulhas youth found solutions to illegal liquor sales and poor refuse removal in their local by-laws.