Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC av Stanley Mwangi Wanjiru

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<P>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.</P><P>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 tim