Alcohol in Africa

Seminar date: 
13 June 1997

 

* Justin Willis, Cambridge University and British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi: "Economic History of Beer Brewing in Rungwe, Tanzania".
* Dr. Jan Abbink, African Studies Centre (ASC): "Competing Practices of Drinking and Power: Alcoholic Hegemonism in Southern Ethiopia".
* Dr. Wouter van Beek, Utrecht University, "Beer Brewing as a Ritual: Focus on Two West African Societies".
* Dr. Rijk van Dijk, African Studies Centre (ASC): "Christian Fundamentalism and Moral Rejection of Alcohol in Malawi".
* Dr. Mike McCall, ITC Enschede: "Beer is Women's Business: Resources, Income and Autonomy".
* Prof. Emmanuel Akeyampong, Harvard University: "Drinking with Friends: Popular Culture, Political Quiescence and the Working Poor in Independent Ghana".
* Drs. Nina Tellegen, African Studies Centre (ASC): "Brewing Beer or Brewing Trouble? Female Entrepreneurs in Malawi".