The crimes of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity are customary international law
crimes. The African continent has experienced quite a number of cases involving these crimes
and the continents ability and willingness to prosecute offenders remains in doubt. As a result
in the past decade or so non-African states have sought to institute proceedings against
African leaders accused of perpetrating international customary law crimes. These attempts have
taken two distinct formats the first being the use of Universal Jurisdiction (UJ) and the
second being the attempts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict and prosecute
African leaders.This book deals with the question: what continental or regional institutions
exist to combat impunity for international crimes: what do states do in fact?
