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Cameroon: Alcohol consumption, a cultural phenomenon

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon, Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Food, History

On Africavox, Jean-Baptiste Ketchateng interviewed [1] [fr] Paul Abouna, an anthropologist at the University of Yaoundé, about binge drinking in Cameroon. He reminds us that “alcohol consumption [in Cameroon] is a cultural phenomenon. It existed before colonization. Alcohol was made with barks and roots.”