Playing omweso at Kojja. A British man identified as Martin Beadle squats down to play omweso ('mweso'), an ancient mancala game, with a Ugandan herd boy. A related caption comments: "(The game) is normally played on a portable wooden board with wild banana seeds as 'men'". Kojja, West Uganda, 1963., West (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.
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Playing omweso at Kojja. A British man identified as Martin Beadle squats down to play omweso ('mweso'), an ancient mancala game, with a Ugandan herd boy. A related caption comments: "(The game) is normally played on a portable wooden board with wild banana seeds as 'men'". Kojja, West Uganda, 1963., West (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.

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