a Changa worker is testing the boiling of the Changaa in a illegal distillery of Mathare slum in Nairobi. The changaa litterally means in kiswaihili “kill me quickly” is the illegal liquor produced in the slums of Nairobi made out of fermented millet, maize and sorghum. in order ot emprove its “quick” sometimes is alterated with substances like jet fuel, embalmin fluid, battery acid.The changaa is on of the very contoversial economical dinamics pf the slum nearly the 30% of the local economy turn arround it.

20 Ottobre 2013

Made in Slums. Mathare Nairobi, Triennale di Milano, Francesco Faccin

A changaa worker is testing the boiling of the liquor in an illegal brewery of Mathare slum in Naiorbi. Changaa lillerally means ” kill me quick” and is the illegal liquor produced in the slums of Nairobi. Mathare is a slum of 600 thousand inhabitant and the illegal distilation of –changaa is unfortunatelly one of the economic resources, nearly 30% of the local economy rotate arround this bussiness. The changaa is made out grain of millet , sorghum or maize fermented with water and brown sugar. Sometimes in order to emprove the alcool effect the liquor is alterated with chemical adictive like jet fuel, embalming fluid, batery acid, with the result of a poisinig drink that has caused in many situations the death of the drinkers or their blindness.

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