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Kisolo (also spelled Chisolo) is a traditional Aimee H.C. Bessire, ''A Short Tour of the Sukuma Museum''
The board used to play Kisolo varies in size depending on common practice and region on the African continent . A board with 32 pits; 4x8 (i.e., 4 rows of 8 pits) is played in the northwestern region of Democratic Republic of Congo. The board in other regions may be is 4x7, i.e., 4 rows of 7 pits each, although there are also Kisolo boards that have 6 pits per row. At game setup, most normally 2 seeds are placed in each pit but some regions start with 3 seeds. Traditionally, seeds from the ''ngola'' tree ('' Pictantus makombo'') or the ''menga'' tree ('' Canarium schweinfurtii'') are used.
mancala
The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some ...
game played by the Luba
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*Kingdom of Luba, a pre-colonial Central African empire
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*Luba, Abra, a municipality in the Philippines
*Luba, Equatorial Guinea, a town o ...
, Lulua and Songye
The Songye people, sometimes written Songe, are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They inhabit a vast territory between the Sankuru and Lubilash rivers in the west and the Lualaba River in the east. Many Songy ...
peoples of DR Congo
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and Zimbabwe
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. It is closely related to other East Africa
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Due to the historical ...
n mancalas such as Bao, Bao Kiarabu, Coro
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* Omweso (Coro), mancala game played in the Lango region of Uganda
* ...
and Isolo
Isolo (also known as Isumbi) is a traditional mancala game played by the Sukuma people in northern Tanzania. The rules of the game come in three variants, respectively for women, boys and men.
Equipment
The board used to play Isolo (also known as ...
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The board used to play Kisolo varies in size depending on common practice and region on the African continent . A board with 32 pits; 4x8 (i.e., 4 rows of 8 pits) is played in the northwestern region of Democratic Republic of Congo. The board in other regions may be is 4x7, i.e., 4 rows of 7 pits each, although there are also Kisolo boards that have 6 pits per row. At game setup, most normally 2 seeds are placed in each pit but some regions start with 3 seeds. Traditionally, seeds from the ''ngola'' tree ('' Pictantus makombo'') or the ''menga'' tree ('' Canarium schweinfurtii'') are used.
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