Alcohol in Africa
Mixing Business, Pleasure, and Politics
Edited by Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Leiden University
ISBN 978-0-325-07115-2 / 0-325-07115-2 / 2002 / 312pp / Cloth
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Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa has historically been a conduit for religious and political expression controlled by male elders. Over the past century and especially during the last two crisis-ridden decades, alcohol's ceremonial role has been largely displaced. Rapid income differentiation and economic marginalization have spurred production and consumption of alcohol. In many localities, expanding supply has led to drinking patterns that impinge on general social welfare. These circumstances coincide with the continent-wide implementation of structural adjustment and economic liberalization policies. One might ask, have those policies driven people to drink?
Currently, alcohol is a taboo subject for donors and African governments alike, yet it is at the nexus of many of the continent's most pressing problems. Agricultural sector decline, large-scale labor redundancy, household instability, and AIDS have cause or effect linkages to changing alcohol usage. This edited collection explores the economic, political, and social meanings of alcohol usage. The material is contextualized within a review of existing anthropological, social history, and social welfare literature on alcohol, and a broad historical overview of the continental trends in alcohol production and consumption. Both the pleasure and the pain of alcohol usage emerge, providing insight into the ambiguity of alcohol in Africa today.
Preface
Introduction
Alcohol in Africa: Substance, Stimulus, and Society, Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Changing Modalities of Alcohol Usage, Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Business Interests
For Women and Children: An Economic History of Brewing among the Nyakyusa of Southwestern Tanzania, Justin Willis
Liquid Gold of a Lost Kingdom: The Rise of Waragi Production in Kibaale District, Uganda,Nite Baza Tanzarn
Brewers, Woodfuel, and Donors: An Awkward Silence as the Fires Blaze, Michael K. McCall
Political Contests
Diluting Drinks and Deepening Discontent: Colonial Liquor Controls and Public Resistance in Windhoek, Namibia, Jan-Bart Gewald
Living on the Proceeds of a Grog Shop: Liquor Revenue in Nigeria, Simon Heap
Drinking, Prestige, and Power: Alcohol and Cultural Hegemony in Maji, Southern Ethiopia, Jon Abbink
Democracy's Heady Brew: Cashew Wine and the Authority of the Elders among the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau, Roy van der Drift
Drinking Mothers Feeding Children: Market Women and Gender Politics in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Tuulikki Pietila
Social Comforts and Discomforts
Drinking with Friends: Popular Culture, the Working Poor, and Youth Drinking in Independent Ghana, Emmanuel Akyeampong
To Drink or Not to Drink: Beer Brewing, Rituals, and Religious Conversion in Maane, Burkina Faso, Sabine Luning
Modernity's Limits: Pentecostalism and the Moral Rejection of Alcohol in Malawi, Rijk van Dijk
Conclusion
Pleasure and Pain: The Ambiguity of Alcohol in Africa, Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Index
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