Inspired by the ecosystem around the magnificent African Baobab, this community site provides a space for writers, thinkers, artists, creatives and the general public to gather and share ideas. 

The idea is born out of the need to democratise discourse; to remove discourse ownership from the elitist university directly to communities. 

Because we intend mimic ‘under the shade discourses’ around a Baobab only respectful and inclusive ideas are published here. 

If you have an idea, thought or creative piece you want to share with others, this is your place.

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Daraja Press

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Dr. Firoze Manji

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Dr. Mwangi Wanjiru

An interview with Stephen Mwangi, a London based lawyer and theorist and lecturer in Law at University of Kent and visiting lecturer in constitutional, administrative, and human rights law at the City University London about his recent book, Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the International Criminal Court.

He recently published a terrific book "Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the International Criminal Court" in which he explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court and examines international criminal law vs the black body through an immersive format of art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens.

Firoze Manji speaks with Stephen Mwangi, a London based lawyer and theorist and lecturer in  Law at University of Kent and visiting lecturer in constitutional, administrative, and human rights law at the City University London about his recent book, Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the International Criminal Court.

He recently published a terrific book "Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the International Criminal Court" in which he explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court and examines international criminal law vs the black body through an immersive format of art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens.

Discussion with Firoze Manji on Colonialism, slavery, racism and the International Criminal Court

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.

Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC

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Mwangi

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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.

The book can be found on Routledge:

[Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC](https://www.routledge.com/Black-Iconography-and-Colonial-reproduction-at-the-ICC-Independence/Wanjiru/p/book/9781032302553)

Book Launch - Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC

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The Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research

Black Iconography and Colonial (Re)Production at the ICC

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Technology, Language and Development: Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo in Discourse with Dr Mwangi wa Wanjiru moderated by Firoze Manji-Daraja Press

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To launch **The Baobab Discourses Series** our guest is none other than ** Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo**, Novelist, Theorist, Pioneering decolonial writer, and distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In today’s broadcast, Prof Ngugi and Dr Mwangi will be exploring Language as protest in the context of the ever-encroaching globalisation. 

- How do we continue decolonising the mind?
- Is decolonisation still relevant given the breaking of boundaries by technology?
- What is the future of African(southern) languages in this future?
- Celebration of now transitioned **Micere Mugo** and **Ama Ata Aidoo** 

Curated by **Mwangi wa Wanjiru** (University of Kent law school), **The Baobab Discourses Series** is a communal series of Interviews, Talks, Lectures, and Art events engaging with the wider Global South realities. The series stems from the need to ‘democratise’ discourse and will explore themes including Decolonisation, International Order, Language, Art & Culture, Environment, Pedagogy, Development, and social justice amongst others.


THE BAOBAB DISCOURSES

ABOUT THE DISCOURSES

CURATOR

Dr. Mwangi Wanjiru

Featured Content

Language as Protest; A Conversation with Ngugi wa Thiongo

Black Iconography and Colonial (re)production at the ICC

Technology, Language and Development: Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo in Discourse with Dr Mwangi wa Wanjiru moderated by Firoze Manji-Daraja Press