light of drug market and policy developments since 2012. As part of this reassessment, we question some of the assumptions … special issue and then sketches some of the key drug market developments on the continent since. Third, it discusses the major … unchanged problem with drug markets in Africa, i.e. the lack of data. We end by considering the major difference since 2012: a …

development. On the other hand, conditions of unemployment and poverty foster expansion of illegal drug markets. In this study, I … illegal drug market as a response to the failure of state-led development. The study is based on 31 in-depth interviews with … male retail drug dealers in Nigeria. Findings revealed various ways the participants framed retail drug trade in connection …

its authorities on the issue of drug control. However, the room for manoeuvring the Bureau was limited, mainly because of … the resilience of the drug economy and the politicised regulations. Struggling in the narrow space between the colonial … short-lived. Its history reveals the resilience of both licit and illicit drug economy and the power struggles that resulted …