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White curtain, So that be, Ango, checkerboard… the Palm wine liqueur commonly known as sodabi has taken Togolese youth hostage. This youth, already weakened by difficult living conditions due to rampant unemployment, and exacerbated by the health crisis, found no other way out than to turn to the excessive consumption of this generally adulterated alcohol, to to forget the moderately enviable social situation in the country.
Indeed, it is enough to take a tour, day or night, in the capital to see the affluence which characterizes the points of resale of sodabi. Small barracks that can be found on almost every street corner. As a result, many young people are sinking more and more into alcoholism. A social phenomenon which is slowly destroying this youth and mortgaging the future of our country.
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According to national data collected by the NGO RAPAA and fundeds by the West African Development Bank (BOAD), cancer eats away more than 50% of young Lomeans. In addition, the study found that the phenomenon affects both sexes, whether these people are literate or illiterate. This is to say how serious the situation is.
As a direct result, alcohol dealers, for their part, are rubbing their hands. “It’s true, our clientele is diverse. And it concerns young people like you or older people. In the morning, afternoon and evening, they come to have a few glasses of sodabi quiet. It is a business which is not ungrateful in any case ”, testifies the manager of a debit of Sodabi.
For some young people, encountered here and there coming out of sodabi, “Drinking warms up and distracts a little when you’re in joy as in pain ». For others, on the other hand, “getting drunk allows you to forget your worries and the gloomy daily life”.
Today, it is more than urgent that the Togolese authorities take measures to contain the phenomenon. The health of young people and the future of the Nation depend on it.
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