Pan-Africanist Worldmaking and the International Criminal Court

Thursday 18^th May, 2023

This seminar was presented by visiting scholar, Dr Yassin Brunger and chaired by Professor Di Otto.

Yassin presented on a paper which asked the question, to what extent can prevailing notions of justice and international law be contested and re-imagined? With a focus on the operation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa, the analysis began with real-life examples of justice’s failures, delays and incoherencies drawn from the contemporary paradigm. This was followed by a proposal for using Pan-Africanism to dislocate hegemonic narratives and to challenge the modalities, architectures, and performativities of the ICC. In the paper, the analysis showcases the transformative possibilities for justice grounded in Pan-Africanist epistemology, lexicon, and radical praxis to re-configure and re-compose efforts at world making in international law.