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The National Indigenous Games Festival is an annual event in South Africa to celebrate the nation's traditional games. [1] [2] The first event took place in 2003. [3]The provinces of South Africa compete in the event as teams, with KwaZulu-Natal having won the event 10 times in a row as of the 2021 edition.
Morabaraba is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa and Botswana with a slightly different variation played in Lesotho. This game is known by many names in many languages, including mlabalaba, mmela (in Setswana), muravava, and umlabalaba.
Diketo, also known as Magave, Upuca, or Puca, is one of ten recognized indigenous games of South Africa and Lesotho. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is similar to the game Jacks . Rules
Lutte Traditionnelle (fr. for Traditional Wrestling) is a style of West African folk wrestling, known as Laamb in Senegal, Boreh in The Gambia, Evala [16] in Togo, and KoKowa / Kokawa in Hausa areas of Nigeria and Niger, or simply Lutte Traditionnelle, in Niger and Burkina Faso.
Morabaraba is accessible and easy to learn, and games can be played quickly, but the strategic and tactical aspects of the game run deep. While it may be played on specially produced boards (or simulated by computer software as a video game), it is simple enough that a board can easily be scratched on a stone or into sand, with coins or pebbles (or whatever comes to hand) used as the pieces.
This event, organized through a partnership between The Dome Namibia and Chief Michael Shamsu Mustapha of the African Traditional Sports and Games Confederation (ATSGC), aims to showcase and preserve Africa’s traditional sports and games under the guidance of Shammi Rana of the International Council of Traditional Sports and Games (ICTSG) It ...
Since then the game has started to gain popularity with young people of all cultures. [5] There is usually a team of 4 players, of whom one is the captain, but it can also be played in pairs or singles. Jukskei in South Africa is played at schools, club and provincial level, and there is an annual tournament in Kroonstad in the Free State. [6]
Cultural Games Association of Ghana, a local sports organization working in collaboration and partnership with the National Sports Authority and the National Commission on Culture respectively organized training the trainers program for people from UK, Nigeria, Togo, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, South Africa, and others. Participants were ...