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| Source: thevictoryreport.org |
By Gundhramns Hammer
December 6, 2013
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The dogs in the village had a puzzled face perhaps wondering what the heck the whole noise was all about.
People were laughing, a few women and old men could barely stand up on their legs, for their whole bodies were shaking full of homemade alcoholic beverage.
Everyone was drinking including toddlers, making Ugandans sort of bottomless drunkards, the hardest in all of Africa. What the hell were they drinking?
They were getting high on waregi or war gin, as is called the alcoholic beverage distilled from ripen bananas in the backyards out in the countryside.
It is Uganda´s moonshine, although a lot stronger. Moonshine is rose water compared to waregi. Strong enough to send the strongest man or woman to a sleeping hell.
Waregi drinking has reached an epidemic level in Uganda. At the present rate of consumption, soon they will not be anybody sane in Uganda´s villages north of Kampala, for instance.
Some people already have died from drinking waregi contaminated with industrial chemicals which are sometimes used to make the devil´s drink even stronger.
This fucking drink can be dangerous indeed, especially if the bootlegger has added acid from car batteries to make it like rocket fuel to lift the consumer even higher or take him or her directly to the graveyard.
Women are the ones who make more waregi since they have to support a large family. Waregi is at the bottom of the economy for a lot of poor people in the Ugandan outback.
Considering that poor Ugandans are up against the wall with few or no hopes for a better life, it is no wonder that they turn to drinking waregi to forget their earthbound hell. It is sad indeed.
Ugandans are no dumbs. Quite the contrary, they are resourceful and inventive people.
They show abundant pro-social behavior towards other humans but when it comes to empathy and respect for the lives of animals they have a lot of work to do like most people around the world.
Socioeconomically, if only they had a chance, if only they had exemplary and honest governments that would be for them and not work as proxies, ass kissing for some foreign power, then things could perhaps be different for everybody in this wonderful nation full of friendly and hospitable people.
They show abundant pro-social behavior towards other humans but when it comes to empathy and respect for the lives of animals they have a lot of work to do like most people around the world.
Socioeconomically, if only they had a chance, if only they had exemplary and honest governments that would be for them and not work as proxies, ass kissing for some foreign power, then things could perhaps be different for everybody in this wonderful nation full of friendly and hospitable people.
Uganda sits on vast fields of mineral resources (Fig. 1). Thus it has a huge potential to become one of the richest nations in Africa.
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| Figure 1. Geology and mineral resources of Uganda. Source: Tuhumwire (2008). |
Unfortunately, the propects for this happening are quite grim. Why? Because Uganda is still a satellite of Western powers. Its true independence, if there will ever be a real one, is yet to come.
In the meantime Uganda´s people, chiefly poor villagers, turn to waregi (Video 1) searching for some solace in this Valley of Tears.
Video 1. Uganda´s war gin epidemic.
We
wish our Ugandan brethren the best, hoping that their beautiful land
might give rise to an enlightened vegan leader that may take them thereby
to better times without falling into everyone else´s present environmental mistakes and also preserving their ancient heritage that has
always been anchored to Mother Nature.
Never forgetting Mother Nature´s Laws can never be transgressed.
Never forgetting Mother Nature´s Laws can never be transgressed.
References
Tuhumwire J. T. (2008). Uganda´s Mineral Potential - The Unexplored Country. Department of Geological Survey and Mines, Mines & Money Conference, London, UK. 17 p.
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