« Mettre l’alcool au feu » : stratégies juridiques et accommodations économiques des trafiquantes urbaines de lutuku face à la justice coloniale (Congo belge, 1945-1960)

In most African sub-Saharan colonies, Africans were forbidden to consume distilled liquor. In the Belgian Congo, the prohibition encouraged, after World War II, the emergence of an illicit drinking culture taken over by urban women traffickers. In Leopoldville, the capital city, these women faced an intensified and severe repression made visible by police arrests and court convictions. Drawing on criminal cases of women convicted for alcohol commercial production, the article reveals a series of economic and legal strategies developed by women traffickers to thwart police controls and reduce c... Mehr ...