In pictures: Kenya's traditional brewers...mambo ya Busaa!!

[Ab-Titchaz]

Across Kenya, traditionally brewed beer, known as busaa, is popular especially in poorer communities. On a hot Sunday afternoon, Nyaleko, one of main brewers in a village in the west of the country, passes out her busaa. She has been brewing for 50 years and “is extremely proud” of her product.
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[Ab-Titchaz]

Inside a drinking den in the village, a man puts down 100 Kenyan shillings (about $1.10, £0.70) on the table for cup of the brown porridge-like beer.

Members of this "drinking club" congregate in crowded mud hut on a Sunday afternoon. They are drinking both busaa and changaa, a locally brewed spirit distilled from grains like millet or maize. There have been deaths and blindness from drinking changaa, which is sometimes mixed with methanol or other chemicals.
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[Ab-Titchaz]

Another village busaa brewer puts a fresh batch on a hot fire – most drinkers prefer to consume the beer warm. It is not illegal to make busaa, and it is brewed on site in the village, but the changaa is distilled in secret locations about an hour away and delivered in water cans.

Kenya's government is set on preventing deaths from changaa by forcing backyard brewers into the open. A bill was passed in 2010 to regulate changaa production by legalising it, but requiring that it be commercially bottled and sold at licensed premises. Here a man illegally distils changaa in a slum in the capital, Nairobi, as he looks out the window for the potential arrival of police.
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[Ab-Titchaz]

In one village home, a woman passes a plastic cup of busaa – it costs about 50 Kenyan shillings for this amount.

Late on a Sunday afternoon, a villager has passed out drunk in the shade of a
neighbouring drinking den.​

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

After an afternoon of drinking, a small group of men sit on a nearby hill and converse about the weekend.

Here an incredibly inebriated father in western Kenya shows me his daughter and asks me for money to help feed her. He says he spent all his money "on getting drunk".

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[Ab-Titchaz]

A short walk from the slum, where the bulk of the main home brewers live in the village, is a new legal establishment to sell spirits. But the owner of the business tells me that because of the high cost of the legal brew, only a few in this area "can afford to buy anything.

At the end of the day, a few young village women walk into another brewer's den.
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[Ab-Titchaz]

And at a nearby church, the main topic of prayers is asking deliverance from the drunkenness that has "consumed the village".
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[Geza Ulole]

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[Smatta]

waltham, lawmaina78, Kabaridi, Smatta, Nairoberry Dhuks, @Mwitaz, livefire, Koborer, CattleRustler Askari Kanzu mwathai, Koba

I respect the person who started this thread, but why the f.uck is Geza tagging me on this? Dont fuc.king tag me on negative sh.it, if you want constructive discussions we can have them, if you want some ignant sh.it, then tag me again. I think its about time you man up and fu.ck off...

 

[mwathai]

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So what's the big deal. Doesn't this happen in Tanzania also? Don't they drink non stop from Friday to sunday afternoon?

 

[Geza Ulole]

I respect the person who started this thread, but why the f.uck is Geza tagging me on this? Dont fuc.king tag me on negative sh.it, if you want constructive discussions we can have them, if you want some ignant sh.it, then tag me again. I think its about time you man up and fu.ck off...

sorry man i won't tag you anymore...and wish you a good week ahead

 

[Geza Ulole]

So what's the big deal. Doesn't this happen in Tanzania also? Don't they drink non stop from Friday to sunday afternoon?

Wanted to share with you guys this side of life not discussed that much in here! unfortunately it makes some people go berserk

 

[waltham]

Wanted to share with you guys this side of life not discussed that much in here! unfortunately it makes some people go berserk

keep you distance you crack head.you think everyone is dumb like you are.go tag bum heads like you .i told you the other day the moment you are cured your kenya foaming inferiority complex sydrome we can sit and talk like other tz guys do.your work is to trawl the internet looking 4 anything negative abt kenya.lazy bum,you think tz aint no negative stuff in google.get life

 

[Geza Ulole]

keep you distance you crack head.you think everyone is dumb like you are.go tag bum heads like you .i told you the other day the moment you are cured your kenya foaming inferiority complex sydrome we can sit and talk like other tz guys do.your work is to trawl the internet looking 4 anything negative abt kenya.lazy bum,you think tz aint no negative stuff in google.get life

over 50% live like this according to WB :baby: yet you make noises here ati Kenya this Kenya that! Kenya my foot...

 

[waltham]

over 50% live like this according to WB :baby: yet you make noises here ati Kenya this Kenya that! Kenya my foot...

six feet you will go na wivu na wembe umeze you aint gonna change no fact crack head.you are so brawn head you got nothing to talk abt tz.kiamsha kinyua kenya,na jioni kenya.you nothing but a big baby mzee

 

[Geza Ulole]

six feet you will go na wivu na wembe umeze you aint gonna change no fact crack head.you are so brawn head you got nothing to talk abt tz.kiamsha kinyua kenya,na jioni kenya.you nothing but a big baby mzee

we want you to discover yourself that you are nobody but an arrogant person! Cause so far are not aware of that! the first time the page for Kenyans was put in here all of your country people came with ego cum superiority complexes BUT JF reduced them to a size of an index finger and now they are good people. We are trying to do the same with you..Slowly We will get there! BTW How is the hunger calamity treating you in Kenya? Did you manage to eat anything today?

 

[waltham]

we want you to discover yourself that you are nobody but an arrogant person! Cause so far are not aware of that! the first time the page for Kenyans was put in here all of your country people came with ego cum superiority complexes BUT JF reduced them to a size of an index finger and now they are good people. We are trying to do the same with you..Slowly We will get there! BTW How is the hunger calamity treating you in Kenya? Did you manage to eat anything today?

Childish ---- from jizee lizima.with your broken English.what yo are doing is nursery school stuff.kenya will will make you coil your tail between your legs.and wet your pants anytime

 

[CYBERTEQ]

I respect the person who started this thread, but why the f.uck is Geza tagging me on this? Dont fuc.king tag me on negative sh.it, if you want constructive discussions we can have them, if you want some ignant sh.it, then tag me again. I think its about time you man up and fu.ck off...

Nimeipenda hii kaka, ushabiki wa kijinga hauna maana! 1Love, brother.

 

[CYBERTEQ]

Mkuu Ab-Titchaz nakukubali sana, wewe ni photo journalist? Napenda sana kazi zako mkuu. Hongera.

 

[Smatta]

Nimeipenda hii kaka, ushabiki wa kijinga hauna maana! 1Love, brother.

mashkur kaka,