caa a22 4500 386371105 CHVBK 20180307111958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300007968 doi S0021855300007968 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300007968 Agyemang Augustus A. African Courts, the Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Enforcement of Awards [Elektronische Daten] [Augustus A. Agyemang] An indication of the reluctance of some African states to submit to international arbitration when investment disputes arise under investment contracts providing for international arbitration of disputes is to be found in their insistence that such disputes should be settled by their national courts. For instance, Article 35 of the Oil Code of Madagascar provides for the exclusive jurisdiction of the Madagascar Courts in respect of disputes arising under the Code. In the Libyan Nationalisation Cases, Libya was insistent that only its national courts could settle the arbitrations. In the Holiday Inns Arbitration and the case of Société Ltd., Benvenuti & Bonfant, the Moroccan and Congolese Governments respectively contended that only their national courts could settle certain aspects of the investment disputes they were parties to. This article considers the extent to which this insistence is reflected in investment contracts and the suitability of African courts for settling investment disputes and enforcing awards. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 31-44 0021-8553 33:1<31 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007968 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007968 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Agyemang Augustus A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 31-44 0021-8553 33:1<31 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge