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Alexander Johan de Voogt → Italian. Alexander Johan de Voogt (often shortened to Alex J. de Voogt) is the most renowned mancala researcher besides Philip Townsend. De Voogt was born on May 3, 1970, in te Baarn, Netherlands. He began to study African languages at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in 1988, then pursued Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Oceania, Hawaii (USA), and eventually graduated in 1995 with an Ph.D. in Psychology writing his dissertation about Bao mastership at Leiden University, Netherlands. Later he was coordinator and teacher in the Advanced Master's Program, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University (1998–2003), then an Assistant Professor of International and Non-Profit Marketing at Leiden University (2002–2009) and an Assistant Profe

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rdfs:comment	Alexander Johan de Voogt → Italian. Alexander Johan de Voogt (often shortened to Alex J. de Voogt) is the most renowned mancala researcher besides Philip Townsend. De Voogt was born on May 3, 1970, in te Baarn, Netherlands. He began to study African languages at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in 1988, then pursued Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Oceania, Hawaii (USA), and eventually graduated in 1995 with an Ph.D. in Psychology writing his dissertation about Bao mastership at Leiden University, Netherlands. Later he was coordinator and teacher in the Advanced Master's Program, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University (1998–2003), then an Assistant Professor of International and Non-Profit Marketing at Leiden University (2002–2009) and an Assistant Profe
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abstract	Alexander Johan de Voogt → Italian. Alexander Johan de Voogt (often shortened to Alex J. de Voogt) is the most renowned mancala researcher besides Philip Townsend. De Voogt was born on May 3, 1970, in te Baarn, Netherlands. He began to study African languages at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in 1988, then pursued Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Oceania, Hawaii (USA), and eventually graduated in 1995 with an Ph.D. in Psychology writing his dissertation about Bao mastership at Leiden University, Netherlands. Later he was coordinator and teacher in the Advanced Master's Program, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University (1998–2003), then an Assistant Professor of International and Non-Profit Marketing at Leiden University (2002–2009) and an Assistant Professor of Work and Social Psychology at Maastricht University (2005–2009). In 2009, he became an assistant curator of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His main research interests are the dispersal of board games, the development, the history of scripts, and aviation psychology. De Voogt learned Bao during a Swahili course and fieldwork study on Zanzibar, Tanzania, in 1990, which remained his main research interest ever since. Other mancala games he studied are Katro (Madagascar), Owela (Namibia), Warri (Barbados), Hawalis (Oman), Ohvalhu (Maldives), Olinda (Sri Lanka) and recently A-i-ú (Brazil; personal communication with R. Gering 2006). De Voogt is a member of the International Society for Board Game Studies and the editor of its journal Board Game Studies, the only journal for the scientific study of the history and development of board games around the world. He was the initiator of the Colloquium Board Games in Academia, now Board Game Studies Colloquium, and organized the first two in 1995 and 1997 at Leiden University. De Voogt is also known as an excellent Bao player and has collected numerous mancala boards.

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