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Friendships brewed in ‘kahawa chungu’

In and around Mombasa, it is common to find men sitting on low benches in a hot, humid afternoon sipping on kahawa chungu, a bitter coffee drink said to be an aphrodisiac.

This concentrated black coffee is traditionally brewed over a charcoal stove in beautiful tall brass kettles.

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