Pan-African Issues in Drugs and Drug Control An International Perspective

Popular ?war on drugs? rhetoric postulates drug use in the West as the product of the drug production and trafficking roles of non-western societies and non-western peoples within and outside the West. In such rhetoric, African societies and people of African descent in Africa and in Diaspora have received criticisms for their respective roles in drug production and drug trafficking, including the position of many African countries as transit routes for drugs exported to the West. By contrast, the abuse of drugs by populations of African origin around the globe and the harmful consequences of the drug trade and drug abuse on these populations has been little studied. Drawing on contributions from seven countries in Africa; two countries in Europe; and seven countries in the Americas, this volume examines the relationships between drug use, drug trafficking, drug controls and the black population of a given society. Each chapter examines the nature and pattern of drug use or abuse; the effects of drug use or abuse (illegal or/and legal) on other areas such as health and crime; the nature, pattern, and perpetration of trafficking and sale of illegal or/and legal drugs; and past and current policies and control of illegal and /or legal drugs. It will be essential reading for all students, academics and policy-makers working in the area of drug control.

Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction to Pan-African Issues in Drugs and Drug Control, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton; Part II Africa; Chapter 2 Drugs and Drug Control in Cameroon, Wilson Y.N. Tamfuh; Chapter 3 Drugs and Drug Control in Ghana, Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi; Chapter 4 Drugs and Drug Control in Kenya, Karatu Kiemo; Chapter 5 Drugs and Drug Control in Namibia, Lawrence Kazembe, Isak Neema; Chapter 6 Drugs and Drug Control in Nigeria, Udo C. Osisiogu, Suleiman Muhammed Bilyaminu; Chapter 7 Drugs and Drug Control in South Africa, Paulin Mbecke; Chapter 8 Drugs and Drug Control in Zimbabwe, Jephias Matunhu, Viola Matunhu; Part III The Caribbean and Latin America; Chapter 9 Drugs and Drug Control in Jamaica, Marika Dawkins, Camille Gibson, Dahlia Stoddart; Chapter 10 Drugs and Drug Control in Trinidad and Tobago, Indira Rampersad; Chapter 11 Drugs and Drug Control in the Virgin Islands, Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie; Chapter 12 Drugs and Drug Control in Brazil, Jaime Amparo Alves, Dina Alves; Chapter 13 Drugs and Drug Control in Mexico, Gabriel Ferreyra; Part IV Western Europe and North America; Chapter 14 Drugs and Drug Control in Britain, Timi Osidipe; Chapter 15 Drugs and Drug Control in Italy, Alvise Sbraccia; Chapter 16 Drugs and Drug Control in Canada, Clayton Mosher, Scott Akins; Chapter 17 Drugs and Drug Control in the United States, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton;

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton is Professor of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University, USA. She is the author of Race and Drug Trials: The Social Construction of Guilt and Innocence (Ashgate, 1999), Drugs, Victims and Race: The Politics of Drug Control (Waterside Press, 2006), and editor (with Biko Agozino) of Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice (Ashgate, 2004); Race, Crime and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Palgrave, 2010), and Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas (Palgrave, 2012).