The use of cyberspace has grown drastically across most regions of the world. Among other factors, this growth has been greatly influenced by e-commerce, content sharing, social networking, learning, communication, entertainment, and so forth. As a rapidly evolving and unregulated domain, cyberspace has various demerits that affect both organisations and individual users. This includes inhuman activities such as online fraud, identity theft, cyberbullying, ransomware, phishing, and many more. Therefore, cybersecurity is a cornerstone of a just society 5.0. There is little evidence that cybersecurity research has been sufficiently quantitatively analysed, especially in Africa. Bibliometrics methods were applied to analyse African cybersecurity research from 2013 to 2022 in Scopus and Web of Science databases. The study focussed on the productivity of African authors, institutions, and countries, as well as the growth of research over ten years. The study found that African cybersecurity research has grown exponentially but there are still research gaps in some regions of the continent. Many African countries reflect little or no contributions to the body of literature in the domain due to technological limitations.
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