ABSTRACT
The international community, including the United Nations and the UN Security Council, has reached a democratic crisis point due to the continuing geopolitics of exclusion of the global south from framing and engaging with global governance processes. Through a prism of transitional justice, this chapter critiques the undemocratic nature of the current international system and suggests methods of institutional reform that will force the international system to confront the historical exploitation and victimisation of Africa and its diaspora. The chapter traces Pan-African proposals for reform of the Security Council and argues that if the undemocratic nature of the United Nations system proves to be beyond reform, more representative alternatives such as a World Parliament or a World Federation of Nations should be pursued. The ultimate goal of such alternatives would be the creation of institutions that are more representative of the nations and peoples of Africa and brings an end to the diplomatic apartheid of the current system.
