OERiGA 

While much focus on Africa highlights its arts, crafts, folklore, clothes, cuisines, music, and languages, there has been less attention paid to indigenous children games. There is a deluge of children's games in Africa yet are undocumented and their educational potential remain unexploited. The COVID-19 pandemic which has resulted in parents and children staying at home has amplified a need for a shared educational resource of games. There are 1.3 billion people in Africa and 400 million children from 3,000 tribes (i.e. distinct linguistic & cultural entities) and each of these children play games. Playing games is every child’s daily practice regardless of their socio-economic status or geographic location, rural or urban, literate or illiterate. The parents of these children played games when they were children themselves yet these games are not documented. Regardless of the tribe, the children's games tacitly teach cultural heritage, values, numeracy, creativity, critical thinking, design thinking and much more. Games are educational as they overtly address three domains of learning: cognitive (mental skills), affective (attitude or self), and psychomotor (manual or physical skills).