This book, based on field research in the West African country of
The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by
international efforts and how local actors interact with
international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also
shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what
circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across
the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan
Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms
control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with
the former the domain of international actors such as the United
Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of
countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that
has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to
disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins
in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life,
and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for
security guards to hunters.
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