page_title: African divination
hierarchical_section_title: African divination
caption_attribution_description: Bag with objects for divination. Africa, 1880-1920. Front view, white background. Wellcome Images
context_page_description: African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa.
  Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present and additionally, to predict events and reality of a future time.
  Cultures of Africa to the year circa C.E. 1991 were still performing and using divination, both within the urban and the rural environments. Diviners might also fulfill the role of herbalist. Divination might be thought of as a social phenomenon, and is thought of as central to the lives of people in societies of Africa.
  Of the five regions of Africa, of which there are 54 countries of Africa, the proceeding countries are shown in the contents of this article:
  North: Algeria, Egypt.
  East: Djibouti Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda.
  Central: Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo
  South: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa.
  West: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Côte d'Ivoire; western Ghana; Nigeria; the Serer of Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania; Sierra Leone; Togo
  and,
  Cape Verde Islands
  Madagascar
context_section_description: African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa.
  Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present and additionally, to predict events and reality of a future time.
  Cultures of Africa to the year circa C.E. 1991 were still performing and using divination, both within the urban and the rural environments. Diviners might also fulfill the role of herbalist. Divination might be thought of as a social phenomenon, and is thought of as central to the lives of people in societies of Africa (circa 2004 at least).
  Of the five regions of Africa, of which there are 54 countries of Africa, the proceeding countries are shown in the contents of this article:
  North: Algeria, Egypt.
  East: Djibouti Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda.
  Central: Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo
  South: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa.
  West: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Côte d'Ivoire; western Ghana; Nigeria; the Serer of Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania; Sierra Leone; Togo
  and,
  Cape Verde Islands
  Madagascar
caption: Bag with objects for divination. Africa, 1880–1920.  (Wellcome Trust: L0057645)
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