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Chisolo I → Italian. Chisolo I, also called Natatu ("the one of three") , is a "chisolo" (mancala game) of the Ila people in Zambia. It was first described by Rev. Edwin W. Smith and Captain Andrew Murray Dale in their book “The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia”. The Ila, a sub-group of the Tonga, number about 71,200 people (as of 2006) and are a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting an area west of Lusaka, the national capital of Zambia. The name of their game is related to "Isolo" and is a variant spelling of "Kisolo" (or "Cisolo") used in Zaire for a rather different mancala game.

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rdfs:label	Chisolo I
rdfs:comment	Chisolo I → Italian. Chisolo I, also called Natatu ("the one of three") , is a "chisolo" (mancala game) of the Ila people in Zambia. It was first described by Rev. Edwin W. Smith and Captain Andrew Murray Dale in their book “The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia”. The Ila, a sub-group of the Tonga, number about 71,200 people (as of 2006) and are a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting an area west of Lusaka, the national capital of Zambia. The name of their game is related to "Isolo" and is a variant spelling of "Kisolo" (or "Cisolo") used in Zaire for a rather different mancala game.
dcterms:subject	Traditional Mancala Games Four Rows Africa
abstract	Chisolo I → Italian. Chisolo I, also called Natatu ("the one of three") , is a "chisolo" (mancala game) of the Ila people in Zambia. It was first described by Rev. Edwin W. Smith and Captain Andrew Murray Dale in their book “The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia”. The Ila, a sub-group of the Tonga, number about 71,200 people (as of 2006) and are a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting an area west of Lusaka, the national capital of Zambia. The name of their game is related to "Isolo" and is a variant spelling of "Kisolo" (or "Cisolo") used in Zaire for a rather different mancala game. Chisolo is a popular game played by adult men and sometimes by adolescent boys and men together, which - according to Smith and Dale - is "evidently a case of teaching the young how to shoot". An old Ila myth tells that man defeats God at an Chisolo game and by implication brings about his own mortality. Smith and Dale gave a game, which took only 20 moves, but reported that another one they recorded was not complete until the 116th move. They didn't mention the rules for singletons given below, but singletons were never moved in their example game, although it would have made sense, and these rules seem to be universal for closely related games played in the south of Africa such as Moruba, Nsolo, and Mefuvha.
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