Dijk, Annigje vanZerbo, Roger2023-05-222023-05-222021van Dijk, A., & Zerbo, R. (2021). Between Drugs and Society: Moral Experiences and Drug Addiction in Ouagadougou. Politique africaine, 16(3), 45-60.0244-7827DOI 10.3917/polaf.163.0045http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1892Politique africaine 2021/3 (n° 163), pages 45 à 60This 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.enCEFORGRISJoseph Ki-Zerbo University and Ouaga II UniversityBurkina FasoDrug AddictionMoral ExperiencesDrugsArticle