The Impact of International Criminal Justice on African States

This book unveils the transaction of adjudicating international crimes in Africa. It surveys the history of international criminal justice and tribunals and studies principles applicable in international tribunals such as universal jurisdiction, collective responsibility and command responsibility (superior orders). The author unravels the impact of ad hoc tribunals and international, mixed or hybrid tribunals, explaining their successes, challenges and limitations. This exposition expresses the need for a universal court, the International Criminal Court (ICC) whose global jurisdiction has been criticized for targeting African States unfairly. The author advances the position however that international criminal justice has as goal to arrest impunity for atrocious crimes committed wherever, in whichever circumstances, and by whoever, on Planet Earth. The rights of humans must be protected and criminals arrested, tried and sentenced.