Monday, 22 October 2012, 6-8PM
Nigerian
drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western
ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets,
and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau - these are
some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa, which have alarmed
policymakers, academics and the general public in recent years.
In
this revealing and original book, the authors weave these aspects into a
provocative argument about Africa's role in the global trade and
control of drugs. In doing so, they show how foreign-inspired policies
have failed to help African drug users but have strengthened the role of
corrupt and brutal law enforcement officers, who are tasked with
halting the export of heroin and cocaine to European and American
consumer markets.
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