POLICY · HUBKANUNY is a shared capability component designed for the WAKALA agentic AI ecosystem. It is a subcomponent of WAKALA’s Open Infrastructure and operates within the developer sandbox. We provide an open-source swarm of compliance agents grounded directly in the actual text of African policies and regulations.
Swahili for rule, principle, regulation.
Compliance often acts as a market barrier that disproportionately affects small builders — a three-person startup included. We democratize market access by providing a free, open, and authoritative compliance-checking capability. Africa should be the reference implementation for compliance-by-design in agentic AI, not a rule-taker retrofitting standards created elsewhere.
The African Union and its member states are swiftly introducing new data protection laws, the Malabo Convention, and national AI strategies like Kenya’s AI Strategy 2025–2030. For developers, this is a wall of documents in varying languages and legal traditions.
Autonomous agents take direct action — moving money, writing to records, transferring data across borders. Compliance cannot be an audit after deployment. Agents must be checkable before they are activated, and re-checkable whenever the agent or the law changes.
Select a layer to see how KANUNY evaluates an AI system.
A curated, versioned, machine-readable corpus of laws and guidelines, organized into country-specific and continental policy packs.
Run the checker, or stay on the hub and watch continental readiness.