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Ampe (game) Two girls playing Ampe. Ampe is a simple but energy-driven game played by school-age children. It originated from Ghana and also played in other neighbouring countries. It is played by two or more people and requires no equipment. [1][2] More girls playing Ampe.
Morabaraba. Morabaraba is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa and Botswana with a slightly different variation played in Lesotho. This game is known by many names in many languages, including mlabalaba, mmela (in Setswana), muravava, and umlabalaba. The game is similar to twelve men's morris, a variation on the ...
Morabaraba. Morabaraba is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa and Botswana with a slightly different variation played in Lesotho. This game is known by many names in many languages, including mlabalaba, mmela (in Setswana), muravava, and umlabalaba. The game is similar to twelve men's morris, a variation on the ...
Diketo is usually played by two players and can be played with pebbles or marbles. The player throws a stone called "mokinto" into the air and then tries to take out as many stones as possible from the circle before they catch it again with the same hand. Then they put the stones back into the hole, one stone at a time, until all ten stones are ...
Tsoro belongs to the same class of African strategy board games collectively called Mancala, such as Oware, Bao, and Kalah. Kids playing Tsoro in Zimbabwe. Tsoro was played by warriors to improve their enemy capturing and raiding strategies in war situations. It was also used to teach young boys and girls how to count.
The game was a common pastime of Tanzanian village children of the African Tanganyika plateau circa the 1910s. [25] Not long after, it is recorded in the Freetown settler community. [26] Christian missionaries encountered it there in the 19th century. [27] Children in late Edo period Japan also were known to play the game. [28]
Child development in Africa addresses the variables and social changes that occur in African children from infancy through adolescence.Three complementary lines of scholarship have sought to generate knowledge about child development in Africa, specifically rooted in endogenous, African ways of knowing: analysis of traditional proverbs, theory-building, and documentation of parental ethno ...
Region. East Africa. Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi. [1][2] It is most popular among the Swahili people of Tanzania and Kenya; the name itself "Bao" is the Swahili word for "board" or "board game".