African board game - a review

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Thursday March 27, 2014 · 8:03 AM PDT

2014/03/27 · 08:03

This will be a fairly short essay on an ancient African board game commonly regarded as being at the top of the list of traditional board games originating from the continent. The diary is also somewhat of a solicitation for support of a digitized version of the game and while I feel a bit sleazy about the solicitation part (its only small and at the end), I also feel there is no other sympathetic audience I can talk with and thus there will be understanding and appreciation at least of the bulk of the diary which is informative and educational about a popular chess-like strategy game played by millions of Africans over the ages. As penance perhaps I should commit myself to writing more diaries on this kind of cultural topic in the future to avoid being labelled as a crass opportunist on this occasion. So jump across and we can explore the board game.

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