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KIMBUMBA! The True Story of an Ancient African Game

KIMBUMBA! The True Story of an Ancient African Game

The 1934 film The March of the Wooden Soldiers features a mystery game. The game’s identity has not been publicly divulged or disclosed. The mysterious game is exposed in the Kimbumba story. Purchase the book now.

A game came out of Africa into the New World, an ancient game brought to the Caribbean sugarcane plantations by enslaved Africans. A blazing championship match played in a sugarcane mill town attests to the game's enduring popularity, memorialized in a Cuban song.

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