waragi
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
, supposedly short for “war gin,” is a clear Ugandan spirit distilled originally from bananas, either locally or in the form of Uganda Waragi, local spirit rectified, branded, and distributed by the government; Uganda Waragi is now made from imported cane spirit. See Central and East Africa, and bananas.See Central, East Africa, and bananas.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).