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Kiswahili greeting: Jambo! English translation: Hello! How are you? All rights reserved. Early African people also made and used lots of different kinds of toys. Young chimpanzees seem to carry around sticks as doll babies , and probably the earliest people did that, too. One very early toy used a small flat piece of wood or bone or clay with two holes in it.
You put a leather thong or a piece of vine or a string through each hole and spun the string to wind up the toy; then when you pull the strings out tight the disk spins around and makes a buzzing noise.
Sometimes people carved pictures of animals on both sides of the disk. Then when the buzzer was spinning it would look like the animal was running. These were very early movies! In historical times, kids in Africa played jacks with rocks , as they did in other countries and as they do today. They ran races and played hide and seek. Kids scratched lines in the dirt to play jumping games like hopscotch.
Or they got long vines or a rope to play jumprope. Early African games: Ancient Egyptian girls circle dance. From the tomb of Mereruka Old Kingdom, ca. Another kind of early African toy was marbles: Kids played marbles , with stones or little balls of clay , or nuts.
They played hacky-sack too. They played cats-cradle with string. African kids liked to play singing and rhythm games too. For instance, they might stand in a circle. The leader would clap a rhythm and then the others would clap the same thing, and then the leader would clap something harder, more complicated, and the others would try to copy it.
People in early Africa played board games. Pronounced "Mboo-bay Mboo-bay," this game uses a Zulu word for lion. The Zulu tribe is based in what is modern-day South Africa. The game is good for groups of six or more. In this game, children help a lion, or mbube, locate and capture an impala a deer-like animal with antlers. Players begin the game standing in a circle and two blindfolded players start the game.
One player is the lion and the other one is the impala. First, both players are spun around. Next, players in the circle begin calling out to the lion, "mbube, mbube! If the lion fails to catch the impala in a minute, a new lion is chosen, and if the lion catches the impala, a new impala is chosen.
Ampe is a simple game played by schoolchildren in Ghana. Like Mbube Mbube, Ampe is a great game for groups.
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