Malawi and the world will soon start playing Gendaball, a sport which Ethiopia-based Malawian Francis Mwalabu has invented.<\/p>\n
Gendaball derives its name from genda, meaning throw in vernacular, and a ball.<\/p>\n
Mwalabu told The Daily Times <\/em>on Friday that he invented the sport in 2013 in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n \u201cI decided to come up with a game that would be identified as a Malawian game. I am now trying to launch it in the country as well as in other countries so that people get to know what it is and embrace it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is such a simple game, where one wins through points accumulated as he plays. It is a simple game and it does not involve much energy or injuries to the players,\u201d Mwalabu, a civil servant in the diplomatic service, said.<\/p>\n The game involves throwing balls into holes that are on a board, which has points marked against each hole.<\/p>\n The bigger the hole, the less the points and the players have to target the ball into the hole.<\/p>\n The points are then multiplied at the end of the game where the one with more points is declared the winner.<\/p>\n He said the sport will be launched in the country in September and in Ethiopia a month later.<\/p>\n \u201cI have already discussed with the Ministry of Sports to incorporate the game and everything is done. Meanwhile, I am embarking on a tour in some areas of the country to conduct trials as a way of making the game known to the people. So far the response has been good. People of all ages seem to like the game,\u201d Mwalabu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi and the world will soon start playing Gendaball, a sport which Ethiopia-based Malawian Francis Mwalabu has invented. Gendaball derives its name from genda, meaning throw in vernacular, and a ball. Mwalabu told The Daily Times on Friday that he invented the sport in 2013 in Ethiopia. \u201cI decided to come up with a game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50764,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50756\/revisions\/50764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}