In Tanzania, more women are embracing Mancala, known as Bao in Swahili, a centuries-old African game traditionally played by men. Derived from the Arabic root n-q-l meaning “movement,” Mancala ...

Waweru believes that the pits were used to play a form of Mancala, which are two-person games of strategy that are typically ...

The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It consists of stones that players move between a series of small pits on a ...