How Kenneth Matiba used export beer to drown snails and save flowers

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...