Rethinking the Role of African National Courts in Arbitration' provides a remarkably thorough overview of the relation of courts and arbitration in the African continent. This book documents the Second SOAS Arbitration in Africa Conference held in Lagos in June 2016. With the increase in commercial transactions, both within the fifty-four independent African States and at international level, it has become apparent that most of the legal framework for arbitration across the continent requires reform. Accordingly, in recent years, as this first in-depth treatment of arbitration in Africa shows, jurisprudence from national courts of various African jurisdictions demonstrates that the courts are becoming more pro-arbitration and judges increasingly understand that their role is to support or complement the arbitral process.