Wikimanqala:Featured article/ week 36
From Wikimanqala
Bao is a mancala game played in Eastern Africa, e.g. Zanzibar, coastal Tanzania and Kenya, the Comores and in north-western Madagascar.
The bao poem "Bao Naligwa" was written in the 1820s by the Swahili poet Muyaka bin Haji in Mombasa, Kenya. The oldest still surviving bao board was made in 1896 in Malawi and is kept today in the British Museum in London.
Some call bao the "king of mancala games", as it is usually considered the most difficult and complex of them. [ + ]
