Which 1954 hit song, composed by August Musarurwa, took its name from an illicit Southern African home-brewed alcohol often laced with methylated spirits? It was banned locally for Africans in Zimbabwe but became a global crossover, covered by Louis Armstrong.

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Skokiaan. In Zimbabwe, laws once limited what Black Africans could drink to a traditional low-alcohol beer, so a strong brew called skokiaan was often laced with methylated spirits. Migrant laborers moved back and forth between Zimbabwe and mines in South Africa near Johannesburg, spreading the song Skokiaan across the region.