This is a story of love in a hopeless place. It takes place in Rombo, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro and hours away from Moshi. One man, in search of banana liquor (mbege), stumbles upon a situation that will change his life. On this day he will take the first steps to becoming a true Chagga man with more than one wife.

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I bought everyone beer in an African village. Banana beer. Tanzania is a little bit like Ethiopia sometimes. Just go to Ethiopia’s backstreet barbershop to compare. Avoiding Ethiopia’s village checkpoints might be easier than the ones in Tanzania, because there could be mbege. It’s Ramadan in both countries, so nobody sleeps in this Ethiopian hotel. Or the Tanzanian one.

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