PyBawo is a multiplayer implementation of the East African board game, Bao (Bawo) in Python. PyBawo largely implements Bao (Bawo) as played in Malawi with additional rules that eliminate the possibility of infinite moves. PyBawo currently supports local two player games against another human or the computer.
bawo is the Malawian version of an ancient African board game based around a simple counting apparatus. bawo (Malawi), bao (Tanzania) and omweso (Uganda) belong to the globally prevalent (spread by the African diaspora) mancala group of games.