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This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the
International Criminal Court (ICC) and examines international
criminal law (ICL) vs the black body through an immersive format of
art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical
race theory lens. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book
interrogates the operationalisation of the Rome Statute to detail a
Eurocentric hegemony at the core of ICL. It explores how
colonialism and slavery have come to shape ICL, exposing the
perpetuation of the colonial, and warns that it has ominous
contemporary and future implications for Africa. As currently
envisaged and acted out at the ICC, this law is founded on
deceptive and colonial ideas of 'what is wrong' in/with the world.
The book finds that the contemporary ICL regime is founded on white
supremacy that corrupts the law's interaction with the African. The
African is but a unit utilised by the global elite to exploit and
extract resources. From time to time, these alliances disintegrate
with ICL becoming a retaliatory tool of choice. What is at stake is
power, not justice. This power has been hierarchical with
Eurocentrism at the top throughout modern history. Colonialism is
seen not to have ended but to have regerminated through the
foundation of the 'independent' African state. The ICC reproduces
the colonial by use of European law and, ultimately, the
over-representation of the black accused. To conclude, the book
provides a liberated African forum that can address conflicts in
the content, with a call for the end of the ICC's involvement in
Africa. The demand is made for an African court that utilises
non-colonising African norms which are uniquely suited to address
local conflicts. Multidisciplinary in nature, this book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of international criminal
law, criminal justice, human rights law, African studies, global
social justice, sociology, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and
philosophy.
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