Posts Tagged: Africa
Medicine Treats Methanol Poisoning With Ethanol
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2011 in - leave a comment
I have no reason to question this bit of medical wisdom from Kenya but it is so simple and elegant that it is worth relaying: • ...when ethanol is introduced, the breakdown of methanol is delayed as ethanol, which is digested faster than methanol, takes over, thus quickly reversing the damage …
When To Have That Beer In Zimbabwe In 2012?
Posted by on Monday, August 15, 2011 in - 3 comments
Laws around beer reflect cultural norms both in how they regulate and how they express norms that are unregulated. Consider this proposed reform to the hours of sale law of Zimbabwe: • The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is crafting its own alcohol policy, which might alter the tough …
Where There Is Beer There Is Peace Revisited
Posted by on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in - 12 comments
When I was growing up, Ethiopia was one of those nations with the hallmark of being incessantly near collapse. Civil war unending. The famine. Now there is beer: • The Beemnet bar is one of those places in Addis Ababa which attracts Ethiopians of all ages. Increasingly locals are going here for …
Beer Puddles! Who Doesn't Like Beer Puddles??
Posted by on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in - 1 comment
...Or at least a story that happens to have "Beer Puddles as the headline: • Many of the Scuds had burst and spilled their contents and the tarmac was running with beer, sticky pools of the thick, cloudy beer forming puddles in the steep eroded cut-offs on the edge of the tar. Some of the crates …
It's A Great Big Beer Drinking Pot!
Posted by on Friday, June 11, 2010 in - 1 comment
I had no idea until the opening ceremonies that Soccer City, the main stadium build for World Cup 2010 is a replica of a South African communal beer drinking pot - the calabash. Please refer to your copy of Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals for more details as to how to use one's own village's calabash.
One Of The More Interesting Bars In the World Today
Posted by on Saturday, April 17, 2010 in - 1 comment
And it is in Zimbabwe. This account in The Times of London today by the son of the owners of the resort where the bar can be found is hilarious. Imagine coming home for a visit to run into this at the other end of the property: • ...from my left, a tall, beautiful girl, graceful as a gazelle in …
Botswana To Regulate Traditional Beer
Posted by on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in - 1 comment
Traditional beer? The only solid access I've had to information about traditional beer drinking patterns in southern Africa is what I read a couple of years ago in Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals by Patrick McAllister. Botswana is apparently taking steps to bring traditional beer under the nation's …
Africa: Draught, Namibia Breweries, Windhoek, Namibia
Posted by on Monday, July 14, 2008 in - 15 comments
Is this my first African beer? I know I have had Kenya's Tusker but never posted about it. I also know that I have yet to have a Nigerian Guinness. You know - the one Ron buys for the train trip home. I received this and a few other's by Windhoek's Namibia Breweries from our pals at Roland and …
Book Review: "Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals" By McAllister
Posted by on Monday, January 28, 2008 in - 1 comment
Like Ron, I bought a book shelf for the expanding crown of beer books in the house and, in the reshuffling of this and that, came across this book fully titled "Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery" - how did I get my hands on this one …
Ugandan Beer Crisis
Posted by on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in - 11 comments
A sad tale is coming out of East Africa for lovers of something called Bell Beer: • “Beer shortage hit Kampala suburbs as food prices shot up during the festive season. Bell beer manufactured by Uganda Breweries Ltd ran out in most depots in Luzira, Kitintale and Bugolobi. At Uganda Brewery's …
