Between Drugs and Society: Moral Experiences and Drug Addiction in Ouagadougou
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Date
2021
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Editions Karthala
Abstract
This article engages with the local moral worlds and the reported
experiences of people addicted to heroin and/or cocaine in
Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Drug users’ experiences were
coloured by a continuous conflict between the need to use drugs and a
simultaneous inability to live a “good life”: that is, to fulfill the social role
associated with their “life stage.” We add to a small body of research
that has sought to understand the worlds of drugs in Africa from the
perspectives of people who engage in drug use.
Description
Politique africaine 2021/3 (n° 163), pages 45 à 60
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CEFORGRIS, Joseph Ki-Zerbo University and Ouaga II University, Burkina Faso, Drug Addiction, Moral Experiences, Drugs
Citation
van Dijk, A., & Zerbo, R. (2021). Between Drugs and Society: Moral Experiences and Drug Addiction in Ouagadougou. Politique africaine, 16(3), 45-60.