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Time, Space and History in African Divination and Board-Games

Heinz Kimmerle’s fascination with Africa has been a move, not so much away from main-stream Western philosophy (to whose Hegelian overtones he has been particularly tuned), but towards modes of thought which might help to relativise and fertilise the Western tradition, in preparation for the global philosophy the world shall need for the third millennium CE. In the process he has developed an interest in the implicit forms of philosophising as contained in African literary productions, rituals including divination, and games. It is significant that his recent collection Philosophie in Afrika/A…