African support for the International Criminal Court (icc) from its earliest stages of institutional development is often referenced in the international criminal justice literature with limited explanation. The aim of this article is to establish a holistic account of African support for an international criminal court in the pre-Rome period, during the Rome Diplomatic Conference, and after the establishment of the icc. This analysis uses rational choice and constructivist international relations (ir) theory to help explain levels of African commitment to the Rome Statute using Kenya and Ivory Coast as case studies. While the icc has been criticized on neocolonial bases, it is important to reconstruct the narrative to more accurately reflect African agency over the international criminal justice project, and the icc in particular. African resistance to the institutional behaviour of the icc is situated in its broader political context(s): domestically and internationally, using rational and normative factors to explain various levels of African commitment to the Rome Statute.

国际刑事司法文献中经常提到非洲对国际刑事法院（icc）从其最早的机构发展阶段提供的支持，但解释有限。这篇文章的目的是要建立一个整体的考虑非洲支持国际刑事法院在预罗马时期，罗马外交会议期间，并建立了后国际刑事法院。该分析使用理性选择和建构主义国际关系 ( ir ) 理论，以肯尼亚和科特迪瓦作为案例研究，帮助解释非洲对《罗马规约》的承诺水平。虽然国际刑事法院有人批评新殖民主义的基础，它的叙述重建更准确地反映在国际刑事司法项目的非洲机构和重要国际刑事法院特别。非洲对国际刑事法院制度行为的抵制来自其更广泛的政治背景：在国内和国际上，使用理性和规范因素来解释非洲对《罗马规约》的不同程度的承诺。