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Title:Diaspora and Drug Trafficking in West Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
Author:Akyeampong, EmmanuelISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:104
Issue:416
Period:July
Pages:429-447
Language:English
Geographic terms:West Africa
Ghana
Subjects:drug trafficking
diasporas
Law, Human Rights and Violence
History and Exploration
colonialism
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518723
Abstract:This article interrogates the emergence of drug trafficking in contemporary Ghana and West Africa within the context of a global political economy, situated within a deeper historical perspective. It examines the earlier trafficking of cannabis along the coast of West Africa in the colonial period, and the later transnational networks that have emerged to promote international drug trafficking (cocaine and heroin). The article probes how the African diaspora and international travel service these emerging drug networks in Ghana, West Africa, Europe and the Americas. It suggests that the concept of an 'ideological diaspora' could shed light on a shared global popular culture, which constitutes a counter culture and rationalizes criminal activities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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