ABSTRACT
On 27 May 2013, the African Union expressed its concern over the misuse of indictments against African leaders, 2 while Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn maligned ICC investigations as some kind of ‘race-hunting’. 3 In an address to the African Union on 12 October 2013, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, whom the ICC charged as an indirect co-perpetrator for the crimes against humanity perpetrated in connection with 2007 post-election violence in Kenya, 4 stated that ‘African sovereignty means nothing to the ICC and its patrons’, 5 that people have termed this situation ‘race-hunting’ and that he found great difficulty adjudging them wrong. Kenyatta went on to say that the ICC ceased being the home of justice the day it became the toy of declining imperial powers. 6
