Drink Power & Cultural Chng:Cl (Social History of Africa) - Hardcover

This book highlights alcohol's centrality in the culture of power.

Drink, Power, and Cultural Change highlights alcohol's centrality in the culture of power. Alcohol could bridge the gap between the spiritual and living worlds, as the blessings of the gods and ancestors were necessary for success. This made alcohol an indispensable fluid, access to which was highly contested. Liquor revenues were critical for British colonialism, while protests against liquor regulations formed a significant part of local politics and drinking bars were hotbeds of nationalist agitation.