Bulto ("a place where you spend the night") is a mancala game of the Borana (also called Boran), a sub-group of the Oromo, in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. The Borana are cattle drovers and peasants. They number about 300,000 people. Bulto is a pastime of the elders and sometimes by youngsters, but never of women. According to Pankhurst "(the game) is played in the open air in daytime, the players usually lying on the ground beside the board, though sometimes seated on small seats."