Ae Gams Festival: Owela game in Windhoek, Namibia southern Africa

/Ae //Gams cultural festival took place in Windhoek on 29 April 2023, Namibia and was organised by Municipality of Windhoek. Scenes from festival - Owela game video. #Windhoek #Africa #Namibia Owela Owela, also referred to by the Khoekhoe language loanword hus[a] is the Oshiwambo name of a traditional mancala board game played by the Nama people, Herero people, Rukwangali speakers, and other ethnic groups from Namibia (and its Southern African neighbours). It is related to the Omweso family of mancala games played in Eastern and Southern Africa. Although this is an abstract strategy game, the consequences of individual moves are so hard to predict that it can be considered, to some extent, a game of chance. Gameplay Equipment Owela is typically played on a board with 4 rows of 6 to 24 pits. In addition, a number of undifferentiated seeds are needed depending on the size of the board. Owela can also be played without a board by digging rows of pits in sand. Objective The winner is the last player to be able to make a legal move, possible by capturing all an opponent’s stones or reducing the opponent to no more than one seed in each pit. Setup Two seeds are placed in each of the outer pits. Two seeds are also placed in each of the four rightmost inner pits for each player. Sowing A player moves by selecting a pit with at least two seeds, and sowing them one by one around their side of the board in a counter-clockwise direction from the starting pit. The player may only sow from one of the sixteen pits in their territory, and the sowing proceeds around this territory, not directly involving the opponent’s side. If the last sowed seed lands in a previously occupied pit, all seeds in that pit, including the one just placed, are immediately sown, before the opponent’s turn. This is called Relay sowing and continues until the last sowing ends in an empty pit. Capturing If the last seed sown lands in one of the player’s eight inner pits, which is occupied, and furthermore both the opponent’s pits in this same column are occupied, then all seeds from these two pits are captured and sown starting from the player’s next pit in the sowing. Djaupyu Siteketa Cultural Group showcasing their traditional dance at the Windhoek /Ae //Gams Arts Cultural Festival underway at the City of Windhoek head office. The festival started yesterday and ends today with great performances by local artists. Windhoek /Ae //Gams Arts and Cultural festival 2023 took place on 28 and 29 April 2023 at City of Windhoek building. Djaupyu Siteketa Cultural group performed their traditional dances on 29 April. If you want to know how to play traditional games such as Amagoes, skululu and Blikkies Omgooi, Blikkie Volmaak and Uma-dowa make your way to the City of Windhoek Museum House in Robert Mugabe Avenue. There were exciting performances by the likes of Sunny Boy, Pen-K, the College of the Arts band and S-Man, among others on 28 April 2023. We also had traditional and theater performances, comedy shows, games, competitions and outdoor screenings. Today we have and even more thrilling entertainment program lined up for you including the vetkoek and Poitjie competitions and electrifying performances by Wild dogs, Big Ben and Pricilla, just to mention a few. Come through the show goes on until 23h50. COOPERATION: 1. Send your video via WhatsApp/Telegram/e-mail/WeTransfer to namhren@ 2. Watch it in our compilation 3. Get links and views to your channel YouTube channel Exploring Namibia TV publishes four video a week: on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Themes range from travelling in Africa to exploring Europe and Russia. No annoying endless begging “hit/smash that bell“ and “don’t forget to sub“ here. © Exploring Namibia TV Facebook: NAMIBIA: WINDHOEK: EQUIPMENT | ОБОРУДОВАНИЕ: AERIAL: DJI PHANTOM 3 PRO | DJI MAVIC PRO PHONES: IPHONE XR/12 PRO | XIAOMI REDMI NOTE VIDEO CAMERAS: SONY HDR-CX360E | PANASONIC HC-X1 ✩F A C E B O O K | ФБ ► ✩INSTAGRAM | ИНСТА ► ✩B L O G | БЛОГ ► ✩V K EN TV | ГРУППА ВК ► ✩TELEGRAM | ТЕЛЕГРАМ ► ✩PURCHASE VIDEO P5 | ПОРТФОЛИО P5 ► ✩W E B S I T E | САЙТ ► ✩C O N T A C T | КОНТАКТЫ ►info@ ✩W H A T S U P T E X T | ВОТСАП ТЕКСТ: 264 816 654893