Despite years of impunity in Africa, the 1990s saw the perpetrators of some of the atrocities in the continent face trials, albeit,with a varied approach. This book discusses in a comparative way five major African legal systems by which these prosecutions took place and recommends on how to create a uniform approach of prosecutions on the said crimes. The book is useful for students and professors of international criminal law, lawyers,practitioners in the field and any other interested individuals.