She is a lawyer with more than 10 years of experience working for Belgian law firms. Recognizing how difficult it is for residents to access legal information in Senegal and Africa in general, she decided to create a digital database of African laws.

Nafissatou Tine (photo) is a Senegalese lawyer and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Sunulex, a start-up that digitizes legal documents to facilitate certain procedures for the African and Senegalese diaspora.

Sunulex has two legal platforms. The first -Sunulex.sn- was created in 2016 to solve access to legal information and practitioners' challenges in Senegal. It is the reference legal platform in Senegal, listing Senegalese, OHADA, WAEMU, and ECOWAS legal texts and court decisions proclaimed by the Senegalese supreme court and the OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration.

"I launched the Sunulex.sn legal platform in Senegal to provide online and organized access to Senegalese legislation for legal practitioners and citizens," she said in 2019.

The second platform is Sunulex Africa, which is an online database of African laws. It gives legal professionals access to the resources they need to advise, defend and enforce the right laws. Sunulex, which was created in 2020, contains over 70,000 official documents covering 15 French-speaking African countries and 8 regional economic zones.

Its originator graduated from the University of Tours with a master's degree in French private law in 2007 and from the Free University of Brussels with a master's degree in Belgian law in 2010 and a complementary master's degree in social law, labor law, and social security in 2011. In 2016, she also got a certificate in public management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She started her professional career, in 2005, as an intern with the Senegalese human rights NGO RADDHO. In 2007, she joined Human Rights Watch as an intern, in Belgium. The following year, still in Belgium, she started teaching French at Global LT, and, in 2009, she became a federal public service employee at the Brussels Social Inspection Department.

From 2011 to 2012, she was a lawyer at Marx Van Ranst Vermeersch & Partners. She later became the lawyer representing the energy firm VWEW. Concurrently, she was a teaching and research assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven.

In 2014, Reliance Avocats hired her as an attorney, and in 2015 she became a research associate at the Pan African Institute of Strategies in Senegal. From 2017 to 2018, she worked, as a legal adviser, for the IT firm ETNIC. Nafissatou Tine won the 2018 African Diaspora Entrepreneurship Award in Belgium for Sunulex. Currently, she is an attorney at the law firm Sunulex lawyers, in Belgium.

Melchior Koba