Omweso, Uganda’s version of the bao board game

The Sikyomu Drum Makers workshop, outside Kampala. Photo/MORGAN MBABAZI

Bao in Kiswahili, Oware in Akan (Ghana), Gebeta in Ethiopia and Kalah in the US, the board game known as Omweso by the Baganda of Uganda has been around for centuries.

Omweso is known by hundreds of different names and is played in almost every country in the world.