Neil Carrier is a departmental lecturer in African anthropology based at the African Studies Centre, Oxford.Gernot Klantschnig is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.

A fresh, ambitious, and critical survey of drug use and trafficking in Africa, where globalization has added cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to local staples like beer, khat, and cannabis. Carrier and Klantschnig explore the continent's changing drug ecologies, the mixed implications for development, and policy responses that have ranged from more drug wars to state complicity in the traffic.

• Introduction1. Africa's drug habit2. Drugs and development: a new threat or opportunity?3. Drug barons, traffickers and mules: Africa as entrepot4. African states and drugs: complicity, neglect and repressionConclusion: alternatives to the drug war?

Neil Carrier is a departmental lecturer in African anthropology based at the African Studies Centre, Oxford.Gernot Klantschnig is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.

A fresh, ambitious, and critical survey of drug use and trafficking in Africa, where globalization has added cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to local staples like beer, khat, and cannabis. Carrier and Klantschnig explore the continent's changing drug ecologies, the mixed implications for development, and policy responses that have ranged from more drug wars to state complicity in the traffic.

• Introduction1. Africa's drug habit2. Drugs and development: a new threat or opportunity?3. Drug barons, traffickers and mules: Africa as entrepot4. African states and drugs: complicity, neglect and repressionConclusion: alternatives to the drug war?