Gabata - Board Game

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Gabata - Gabata is played in northern Ethiopia and Sudan. Its antiquity is not known, but it was first recorded in western literature by J. T. Bent in 1893, in his book Sacred City of the Ethiopians. It was thought obsolete until 1971, when Richard Pankhurst recorded, in the Ethiopia Observer, that it was still being played. One of many mancala games. How to play? link