Below are some basic facts about Khat/Qat and it's Social/economical effects on Somali Society.
For more info, follow the link down below.
Source:
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective Edited by Arjun Appadurai
Chapter 8 - Qat: changes in the production and consumption of the quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa
LEE V. CASSANELLI
http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream/2307/2039/1/Qat-Changes in the production and consumption.pdf
Popular ideas about Qat
Coffee and Qat:
Production of Qat:
The Distribution of Qat:
Hargeisa vs Mogdishu:
Qat and the politics of prohibition:
Side note:
It is also interesting to see that the Somali expansion in the Horn of Africa ceased when they arrived at areas where there's an abundance of Qat.
Videos:
Khat in Harar
The Somalization of Madagascar