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‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs

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  • Margarita Dimova

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Kenya faces the challenge of policing not only drug smuggling through its territory, but a sprawling local market dominated by heroin. The government is enthusiastically embracing the global ‘war on drugs’ discourse, propped by external actors’ assistance and insistence. Guided by these developments, this article analyses Kenya’s local war on drugs using ethnographic material from immersive fieldwork in Nairobi and Mombasa. The aim is to decode local political actors’ engagement in the international drug control regime and its impact on everyday perceptions of Kenyan state authority. As such, this article provides an alternative explanation of the mechanics of Kenyan drug markets and the role some government officials play in (controlling) them.

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  • Margarita Dimova, 2016. "‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(148), pages 227-242, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:43:y:2016:i:148:p:227-242
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1169165
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