Cet article évalue l’impact des drogues sur la production et le commerce agricole ainsi que les moyens de subsistance liés, en particulier le cannabis et le khat au Lesotho, au Nigéria et au Kenya. Il continue le travail de recherche commencé récemment sur le lien entre drogues et développement en Afrique et défie quelques unes de ses hypothèses. Il soutient que, s...

Miraa (as khat is most commonly known in Kenya) is grown intensively in the Nyambene Hills district of Kenya by the Tigania and Igembe (sub-groups of the Meru). It is of prime economic importance for the region, and Nyambene-grown miraa feeds a growing international, as well as national, market. While it is a controversial substance - condemned as a 'drug' by many ...

Since the collapse of the Somali state, Nairobi's Eastleigh estate has played host to thousands of Somali refugees and developed from a quiet residential suburb to a major East African commercial hub. This article examines this transformation, arguing that it builds on pre-existing cross border trade networks, as well as diaspora and Kenyan sources of capital, and ...

In the 2013 elections, northern Kenya – previously seen as peripheral to national politics – took on great significance as a potential ‘swing’ region, and became the focus of much campaigning and strategizing by presidential and other candidates. It was also seen as a region especially at risk of violence given its history of ethnic politics and the new context of ...

A nation's heroes are rarely fixed and are frequently reassessed and reinterpreted by new generations. In the case of a number of African countries, the very masculine liberation heroes of yesteryear often prove divisive, emerging from very fraught histories. In this context, there are moves to broaden the pantheon of heroes and make history more inclusive. In Keny...