Sep 1, 2017
The best known board game from Africa is Mancala. You can play Mancala just by making two rows of little holes in the ground, and using little rocks or seeds as the playing pieces. Many people did play that way in Africa, and possibly people have played that way since prehistoric times. People often used farming words like "sowing" to describe how you moved in Mancala, so maybe the game got started about the same time as farming, about 8000 BC. But the earliest actual Mancala board we have comes from Axum (modern Ethiopia), where it was cut into stone about 600 AD. #africanhistory #earlyafrica #mancala #axumempire #ethiopia #earlyboardgames #historyoffarming (at Axum, Ethiopia)
