Board-Games of the Horn of Africa

Board-games, based on the dropping of pebbles or other counters into holes, are played throughout the Horn of Africa, as indeed in other parts of Africa, Asia, and areas of the New World where Africans were taken as slaves. To illustrate the great variety of play encountered in the Horn, the author sets down the rules of six fairly typical games as found in the Central Highlands of Eritrea; northern Tigr; Shawa, Gojjam and Bagmder; the Afar country; the Ogaden; and Hadiya. The descriptions should enable readers wishing to do so actually to play these games. Bibliogr.