Category: Sports/Hobbies

Mancala, the National Game of Africa

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929· 2 chapters· 4,626 words

The comparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in their diffusion over the earth are among the vital ones that confound the ethnologist. Their origins are lost in the unwritten history of the chil...

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1. Part 1

The comparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in their diffusion over the earth are among the v...

2. Part 2

The first player chooses any pocket in his inner row which contains more than one man from which to start his first move, and begins the game by picking up all the men in that p...