Ba-awa

Ba-awa is a variant of mancala, the family of count and capture board games, originating among peoples of Ghana. It is played on the same style of board as the better known Ghanaian mancala game Oware, but with simpler rules, and in traditional Ghanaian society it is regarded chiefly as a game for women and children rather than adult men, who more often play Oware. Ba-awa is closely related to the games j'erin and obridjie played across the border in Nigeria, and it also resembles anywoli, a mancala game played along the Ethiopian Sudanese border. As in other mancala games, two players sow seeds around pits on the board in multiple laps, capturing an opponent's seeds under specific conditions rather than stopping after a single pass around the board.