Contents: ? Homicide in tradition African societies: Customary law and the question of accountability / Thandabantu Nhlapo ? The essence vindicated? Courts and customary marriages in South Africa / Lea Mwambene ? The foundations of ?peace? as a value for the promotion of human rights in Africa / Nomthandazo Ntlama ? An unintended legacy: Kwame Nkrumah and the domestication of national self-determination in Africa / Andrew Small ? Domestic servitude and ritual slavery in West Africa from a human rights perspective / Veronika Gyuracz