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My uncle is an engineer specialising in glass bottle factory design and building. He's been to and from Tanzania (among other developing nations) a lot over the past 8 or so years building glass bottle plants and glass recycling plants.

Suffice to say, they're working on it.

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On that note: breweries are bellweather industries. Need glass bottles, assembly lines. High hygiene and cleaning requirements, bringing more of the procedural sides of industrialization..

When a country starts brewing for global market, it's a good sign.

Is Tanzania brewing? I know South Africa has its own liquor that's somewhat popular, but I'm woefully uneducated about the rest of the continent.

I don't know if they're brewing for the world market, but when I was in Dar-es-Salam, I remember ordering Tanzanian beer (e.g. https://untappd.com/b/serengeti-breweries-ltd-serengeti-prem...)

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