It is time for Nigeria to lead the way for Africa and call time on the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the 1998 Rome Statute that brought it into being. Instead of impartially enforcing the Rome Statute, the Europeans have chosen to focus the Court almost exclusively on Africa. African heads of state and ministers have quite correctly spoken of the ICC’s “race hunting” and the “International Caucasian Court”. The Court has been content to provide “indictments” as legal cover for European – and particularly French – intervention in Africa. _Dr David Hoile is the author of Justice Denied: The Reality of the International Criminal Court, a 610-page study of the International Criminal Court published by the London-based Africa Research Centre_