Drugs in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Charles Ambler, Neil Carrier, Gernot Klantschnig

   Pages 1-23

3. The Drug Empire: Control of Drugs in Africa, a Global Perspective

   • Charles Ambler

   Pages 25-47

4. The Rise of Branded Alcoholic Drinks in West Africa

   • Dmitri van den Bersselaar

   Pages 49-67

5. Histories of Cannabis Use and Control in Nigeria, 1927–1967

   • Gernot Klantschnig

   Pages 69-88

6. Alcohol Licensing Hours: Time and Temperance in Kenya

   • Justin Willis

   Pages 89-104

7. A Respectable Chew?: Highs and Lows in the History of Kenyan Khat

   • Neil Carrier

   Pages 105-123

8. The Illegal Trade in Pharmaceuticals: Historical Cases from West Africa

   • Donna A. Patterson

   Pages 125-143

9. Tanzanian Heroin Users and the Realities of Addiction

   • Sheryl Mccurdy

   Pages 145-160

10. Out of the Shadows: Negotiations and Networks in the Cannabis Trade in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

    • Ann A. Laudati

    Pages 161-181

11. Back Matter

    Pages 183-205

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This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use, trade, production, and control of mind-altering substances on the continent

• Africa
• alcohol
• drugs
• ethnography

• University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China

  Gernot Klantschnig

• African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK

  Neil Carrier

• University of Texas, USA

  Charles Ambler

Charles Ambler, Professor, University of Texas, El Paso, USA Dmitri van den Berseelaar, Reader in African History, University of Liverpool, UK Neil Carrier, Lecturer, Oxford, UK Gernot Klantschnig, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China Ann Laudati, Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK Sheryl McCurdy, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Houston, USA Donna Patterson, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, USA Justin Willis, University of Durham, UK

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