diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0da034c..166f8b6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ categories = ["gui", "api-bindings"]
 [dependencies]
 implot-sys = { version = "0.1.0", path = "implot-sys" }
 bitflags = "1.0"
+parking_lot = "0.11"
+lazy_static = "1.1"
 
 
 [workspace]
diff --git a/src/context.rs b/src/context.rs
index 924498e..d841407 100644
--- a/src/context.rs
+++ b/src/context.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+use parking_lot::ReentrantMutex;
+
 // TODO(4bb4) Do this properly.
 // I already added a simple Context struct that can be created once and used as long as it is not
 // dropped here for initial tests - this is of course neither threadsafe nor otherwise safe to use
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@
 //   I think I'll call this PlotUi to mimmick imgui-rs' Ui.
 // - Think about what this means in terms of the stacks and things like is_plot_hovered() -
 //   they should also only work when there is a context available.
-//
+
 /// An implot context.
 ///
 /// A context is required to do most of the things this library provides. While this was created
@@ -29,9 +31,26 @@ pub struct Context {
     raw: *mut sys::ImPlotContext,
 }
 
+lazy_static! {
+    // This mutex needs to be used to guard all public functions that can affect the underlying
+    // ImPlot active context
+    static ref CTX_MUTEX: ReentrantMutex<()> = ReentrantMutex::new(());
+}
+
+fn no_current_context() -> bool {
+    let ctx = unsafe { sys::ImPlot_GetCurrentContext() };
+    ctx.is_null()
+}
+
 impl Context {
     /// Create a context.
     pub fn create() -> Self {
+        let _guard = CTX_MUTEX.lock();
+        assert!(
+            no_current_context(),
+            "A new active context cannot be created, because another one already exists"
+        );
+
         let ctx = unsafe { sys::ImPlot_CreateContext() };
         unsafe {
             sys::ImPlot_SetCurrentContext(ctx);
@@ -42,6 +61,7 @@ impl Context {
 
 impl Drop for Context {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
+        let _guard = CTX_MUTEX.lock();
         unsafe {
             sys::ImPlot_DestroyContext(self.raw);
         }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 43ad920..d0c8124 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 //!
 //!
 pub extern crate implot_sys as sys;
+
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate lazy_static;
+
 pub use sys::imgui::Condition;
 // TODO(4bb4) facade-wrap these
 pub use sys::{ImPlotLimits, ImPlotPoint, ImPlotRange, ImVec2, ImVec4};