Today, we risk exporting raw data and importing digital products built from data, algorithms, computing power and intellectual property controlled elsewhere. Digital Sovereignty Does Not Mean Digital IsolationSome may hear “digital sovereignty” and imagine shutting out foreign technology companies or attempting to build every digital product domestically. The African Continental Free Trade Area should therefore help create an integrated digital market in which African companies can scale. The objective should be clear: Nigeria must move from being a market for the digital world to becoming a maker of the digital world. It is also: Who controls our data, algorithms, digital infrastructure and technological future?