Is law the only possible way to imagine justice? What is affective justice? Is it a failure if we attempt to bring about a fusion between legal justice and affective justice? How are we to understand the intimate relation between law and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century? Must the International Criminal Court remain the most authoritative (global) institution to understand political violence in the continent of Africa? Must the survivors of state violence in the continent of Africa be indebted to the International Criminal Court for its promise of justice?