Leaf Of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation In Harerge Ethiopia 1875-1991(Eastern African Studies)

For anyone interested not only on the qat plant but also on its phenomenal spread all over Ethiopia and neighbouring Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti and Yemen, this is a well-informed, academic presentation. Ezekiel Gebissa does a great service to those interested in contemporary Horn of African societies but presenting a century or so evolution on the cultivation of this narcotic, it's traditional implications in Harar (both among urban Adari peoples and extra-city Oromo farmers), the reasons for it's national spread as the favourite cash-crop of Ethiopia, etc.Well written, full of anecdotes that set the reader in the region of Eastern Ethiopia.