Africa in pictures: Games

Jim Pinkerton's photograph of children playing in the sand in Botswana is the first in series of shots showing games in Africa sent by BBC News website readers.

A mudflap maker in Zambia plays draughts using a scrap of industrial conveyor belt from the copper mines as a board and film canister tops for pieces in Hunter Nielson's picture.

In Nigeria, Mathias Schwartz Kirkegaard captured spectators watching another game of draughts being played in a bar.

Namvula Rennie sent in this shot of children skipping in a backstreet of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital.

On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, Rob Harris captured a Maasai man showing off his pool skills. He says, "They all had knives so I let him win!"

On a trip to Eritrea, Sarah Lynch photographed this bowling alley built when American soldiers were based in the Horn of Africa country.

Leanne Sedowski says she snapped this picture of two brothers playing a handheld computer game on the side of the road in Madagascar when she stopped to buy fruit.

Children jump rope on the streets of Kayamandi Township on the outskirts of Stellenbosch in South Africa, in this photograph sent in by Spencer Millsap.

Tania Bruehl captured a boy rolling a hoop with a stick during a journey in West Africa.

Children enjoying a game in Tanzania pose for a photograph with their dog for Herwig Viechtbauer.

Eddie Mackle snapped Ugandan children playing with a toy made out of a plastic bottle with wheels from a flip flop. For a future gallery send in pictures of Africa through a window.

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