One can chew the leaves and buds fresh or dried. Other names for khat are qat, kat, chat, and qaad. Khat is sometimes mistakenly confused with ketamine – a dissociative drug used in South Africa.

One can chew the leaves and buds fresh or dried. Other names for khat are qat, kat, chat, and qaad. Khat is sometimes mistakenly confused with ketamine – a dissociative drug used in South Africa.

A man irrigates muguka (khat) crop using water from a pan in Gachuriri ... is spreading like a weed and addicted broke youth are chewing into miraa’s traditional markets at the Coast, Nairobi ...

There are many people, in the Yemeni and Somali communities in particular, who chew khat and view it as a big part of their cultural identity. I was interested in revealing the human aspects ...