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Hawalis, the Glossary

Index Hawalis

Hawalis is a traditional mancala game played in Oman as well as Zanzibar, where it is known as Bao la Kiarabu, with slightly different rules.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 14 relations: Africa, Alexander de Voogt, Angola, Bao (game), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mancala, Mozambique, Oman, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar.

  2. Culture of Oman
  3. Culture of Zanzibar
  4. Traditional mancala games

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Alexander de Voogt

Alexander Johan de Voogt or simply Alex de Voogt (Baarn, 3 May 1970) is a Dutch researcher and associate professor at Drew University, who worked as a curator of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History and best known for his work on the history and distribution of traditional mancala games.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Bao (game)

Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi. Hawalis and Bao (game) are Culture of Zanzibar and traditional mancala games.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Mancala

Mancala (منقلة manqalah) is 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.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

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See also

Culture of Oman

Culture of Zanzibar

Traditional mancala games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawalis