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Waragi is the local name for home-brewed alcohol made variously from cassava, bananas, millet or cane sugar, depending on the region.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Waragi is the local name for home-brewed alcohol made variously from cassava, bananas, millet or cane sugar, depending on the region.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Waragi is the local name for home-brewed alcohol made variously from cassava, bananas, millet or cane sugar, depending on the region.
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The BBC reports Waragi is drunk across Uganda, often by those who cannot afford industrialised alcohol.
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Local authorities, he said, had banned the production and sale of Waragi and confiscated stock from traders, but residents were defying the ban and hiding the liquor under their beds.
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Waragi is the local name for home-brewed alcohol made variously from cassava, bananas, millet or cane sugar, depending on the region.
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Waragi is the local name for home-brewed alcohol made variously from cassava, bananas, millet or cane sugar, depending on the region.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Local brewers had mixed large amounts of methanol in Waragi, a gin extracted from bananas, he said.
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My first recipients A bunch of Ugandans distilling Waragi!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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There is something to be said for sitting in a lounge chair at the lodge at Murchison Falls gazing out at the wildlife along the Nile while sipping on a cold martini made with Ugandan Waragi and feeling mellow as your African waiter in his stylish white jacket asks if he can bring you another drink and suddenly you know how Hemingway felt even though, unbeknownst to your fellow tourists in their safari hats and Jungle Jim attire, you are, in fact, dirt poor and destined to spend the night in the nearby tent city reserved for backpackers and lodge employees but, oddly enough, when you are in you 20s that poverty is a badge of honor while in your 60s, that safari hat and Jungle Jim attire have a certain appeal along with being called "Bwana" as in, "Would you like another Waragi, Bwana?".
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