Introduction -- Somali identity and khat -- Yemeni migrants : traversing forest, mountain and desert -- Ugandan Khat production spreads -- Altitude and attitude -- Wholesale risks -- Style and substance -- Khat consumption and changing ethnic identities -- "Idle and disorderly" -- Khat and development
Summary
This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009. By telling of the story of khat, the book will serve as a vehicle for the analysis of social change, development priorities and shifting ethnic identities in Uganda over the last 80 years
