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Giuthi ("to place", "to distribute") is a mancala game of the Kikuyu and the Embu in Kenya. It was a popular pastime of young boys and men when they were herding cattle or goats. The game is almost forgotten today. There were special terms for certain moves and various holes, but no one seems to remember them now. The board was usually dug into the ground. The game was played with small pebbles, the seeds of the mubuthi tree (Caesalpinia volkensii) or sodom apples (the berries of Solanum incanum) known by the southern Kikuyu as ndongu.

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  • Giuthi ("to place", "to distribute") is a mancala game of the Kikuyu and the Embu in Kenya. It was a popular pastime of young boys and men when they were herding cattle or goats. The game is almost forgotten today. There were special terms for certain moves and various holes, but no one seems to remember them now. The board was usually dug into the ground. The game was played with small pebbles, the seeds of the mubuthi tree (Caesalpinia volkensii) or sodom apples (the berries of Solanum incanum) known by the southern Kikuyu as ndongu.
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  • Giuthi ("to place", "to distribute") is a mancala game of the Kikuyu and the Embu in Kenya. It was a popular pastime of young boys and men when they were herding cattle or goats. The game is almost forgotten today. There were special terms for certain moves and various holes, but no one seems to remember them now. The board was usually dug into the ground. The game was played with small pebbles, the seeds of the mubuthi tree (Caesalpinia volkensii) or sodom apples (the berries of Solanum incanum) known by the southern Kikuyu as ndongu. Giuthi was first described in 1925 by the English ethnologue Orde Brown in his book The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya.
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