Africa and the War on Drugs

Neil Carrier is a researcher based at the African Studies Centre, Oxford. He has published widely on the substance khat, which he first studied in Kenya and in the UK for his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews (2004). In recent years, Carrier's focus has broadened to drugs in Africa more generally, and he has also carried out research in East Africa on a range of other issues, from film and photography to indigeneity. His current project focuses on the Somali diaspora and their impact upon Eastleigh, a Nairobi estate recently transformed into a booming commercial zone. Gernot Klantschnig is Assistant Professor in International Studies at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. He completed his DPhil in Politics at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2008. His doctoral research, which is now in the process of being published as Drugs, Crime and the State in Africa: The Nigerian Connection, examined Nigeria's role in the international trade and control of illegal drugs. His recent research and publications have also focussed on the international politics of crime control, West African law enforcement, as well as China's growing economic and political engagement with Africa.