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When a baby is born in Rwanda, a traditional ceremony takes place on the eighth day of the child's life. Banana beer is served, and the community gathers as the newborn is brought out and held up to the sky. The infant is scrutinized, and names are suggested by family, friends and neighbors until the father hears one that sounds right...
...built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana beer...
...birth; too many don't make it out of the womb alive. But as Nereciana grew heavy with child and finally could no longer waddle out to work in the fields, she imagined the ceremony, the party, the happy times ahead. Joseph was laying in a supply of banana beer. Ripe pineapples, Nereciana's favorite fruit, were abundant. The birth and the naming ceremony would be, after the camp and the long march back, a new beginning...
...bright evening in early spring, the villagers of Rwankogoto gathered in and around the couple's tiny hut, sipping banana beer, speaking quietly among themselves. Joseph entered the dirt-floor living room. He looked dazed. He had been weeping...
...Decoders broke up right after we graduated in 1982. I was immediately inducted into The Sex Execs; I was brought in to bolster up the horn section. And they knew I was a good hang for them: another over-educated dude out there drinking too much beer and trying to be in a rock band...