Round 16: Tossup 20
Boston’s MFA exhibits an indigo boubou depicting magic squares and implements for this activity, which supposedly influences the sex of Baule (“bow-lay”) children. Ndop portraits of the Bushoong king Shyaam depict this activity, since he taught it in lieu of warfare after introducing raffia and cassava to 17th-century Kuba. The Bachwezi supposedly taught a form of this activity that demarcated kabakas’ wives from commoners. Abeid Karume was shot during this activity, whose variants include bao, omweso, and oware. Southeast Asian forms of this game, like congkak (“CHONG-kahk”), may have been spread by Arab traders who learned it on the Swahili Coast. This game typically involves laps of figurative “sowing” with a bonus move from landing in the player’s store. For 10 points, 48 stones move along a two-row board in the standard form of what African count-and-capture game? ■END■
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