One of the tragedies of Africa in this age of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is its reliance on externally owned and externally controlled technological epistemes, digital infrastructures, applications, algorithms, and platforms, among others. The continent’s digital landscape is completely dominated by a small number of Silicon Valley-based tech giants, including Google/Alphabet, Apple, Facebook/Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM), among others. Apparently, these big tech corporations are currently involved in a fierce geoeconomic battle for the ‘digital soul’ of Africa with the Chinese tech firms, such as Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, China Mobile, China Telecom, Hikvision, Huawei, Tencent, and ZTE (Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation Limited). In this context, most of the digital data produced by Africa’s over 590 million internet users are appropriated and sent to data centres owned and operated by both the United States and Chinese tech conglomerates. It is argued in this chapter that tech giants, regardless of whether they are American or Chinese-based, have developed intrusive, subversive, and covert mechanisms to extract data for their profit motives from Africa. This is where the concept of digital sovereignty comes into play, as it seeks to restore digital independence and data control to Africa and African peoples.