Decolonizing Drug History? Notes on a Journey Southward

Abstract

When my father noticed that I could not do any work more than to drink, he engaged an expert palm-wine tapster for me; he had no other work more than to tap palm-wine every day. So my father gave me a palm-tree farm which was nine miles square and it contained 560,000 palm-trees, and this palm-wine tapster was tapping one hundred and fifty kegs of palm-wine every morning, but before 2 o’clock p.m., I wouldhavedrunkall of it; after thathewouldgoand tapanother75kegs in the evening which I would be drinking till morning. So my friends were uncountable by that time and they were drinking palm-wine with me frommorning til a late hour in the night.