For centuries, homebrewing our nutritious and sacred Traditional Afrikan Beer has nurtured communities constituted a major source of self-employment for women across Sub-saharan Afrika. As they resisted displacements and discriminatory policies by the colonial and apartheid governments in the 1900’s, they were met with relentless police violence and our indigenous beer, just like its custodians, was rendered inferior.

Traditional Afrikan Beer is intricately intertwined with Afrikan culture and primarily brewed by women who have passed down this knowledge for generations. Brewed with indigenous sorghum and millet, along with maize, it is high in B vitamins, amino acids, and probiotics.

Today, the policy frameworks remain limited in recognizing the role of homebrewing Traditional Afrikan Beer for women living in poverty across the country. As a legacy of the stigmatizing past, homebrewers remain under resourced, our indigenous beer endangered, and this history erased.