Original or number one? Ngati ufuna kukolewa fast, tenga number one imakola ni ikali baaad! These were the words I was greeted with the moment I arrived in Lusaka’s Garden Compound. At exactly 11:00 hours on Monday, I arrived in Garden, which is famous for Kachasu brewing, eager to experience the lifestyle of a drinker of this locally brewed spirit which is, yet again, at the brink of being banned. After disembarking from my vehicle, I must have been looking lost at the roadside where it was business as usual, vegetables, salaula, chicken and various other items were on sale. As I stood by the roadside pondering how I would find a kachasu bewing joint, a man approached me and...

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