21/08/2022
Happy Sunday!!! Ambassador Palmer's first oware lesson in Tamale, Ghana.
Oware is the oldest board game that is still widely played in the world today.
It belongs to the pit and pebbles classification of games, which has been in existence for seven thousand years.
"Ɔware" is that given by the Akan speaking people there.
This game or closely related variants are played in most of West Africa (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, West Central Africa (Cameroon, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo), the Caribbean (Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, US Virgin Islands; possibly also on Martinique and Saint Kitts) and South America (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname).
Perhaps it was also known by plantation slaves and their descendants in the USA
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