Mulabalaba is a mancala game played by the Lozi and Toka in Zambia. The only difference between the Lozi and the Toka game is that the Toka play on larger boards. The game was first described by J. H. Chaplin in his article A Note on Mancala Games in Northern Rhodesia in 1956. The Lozi are a semi-autonomous people of about 500,000 who live in Barotseland (Western Zambia), the Caprivi Strip (Namibia) and Botswana. The Toka people are indigenous to the area surrounding Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe.