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What would be a perfect gift for a teetotaler to an Anglican missionary? A bible embellished with an animal skin and in African artefacts? Wrong! Veteran politician Kenneth Matiba chose to gift his long lost missionary friend, a case of Guinness stout bottles.
When an agent of Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) knocked on the door of Cyril Hooper in England to offer a couple of stout beers, the missionary who had once served at Kahuhia in Murang'a was not scandalised.
When he wrote to Matiba sometimes in 1975, he explained how he had utilised the beer he could not drink because of his religious faith. Apparently, Hooper had used the Guinness to trap snails which fell in love with the strong, thick, roasted grain taste drink and drowned their sorrows and souls to damnation, to the delight of the missionary.
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