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==Northeast Africa== In southwest Ethiopia and adjacent area of [[South Sudan]], a number of ethnic communities have had the practice of reading animal entrails to divine the future.<ref>Abbink, Jon. "Reading the entrails: analysis of an African divination discourse." ''Man'' (1993): 705-726.</ref> Some of the groups that have been documented as having this practice include [[Surma people|Suri]], [[Mursi people|Mursi ]], [[Toposa people|Topsa ]], [[Nyangatom people|Nyangatom]], [[Didinga people|Didinga]], [[Murle people|Murle]], [[Me'en people|Me'en]], [[Turkana people|Turkana]], [[Konso people|Konso]],<ref>Otto, Shako. "Traditional Konso culture and the missionary impact." In ''Annales d'Ethiopie,'' vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 149-180. 2004.</ref> [[Dime language|Dime]],<ref>Todd, Dave M. "Herbalists, Diviners and Shamans in Dimam." ''Paideuma'' (1977): 189-204.</ref> [[Karamojong people|Karamojong]],<ref>Knighton, Ben. "The State as Raider among the Karamojong:‘Where there are no Guns, they use the Threat of Guns’." ''Africa'' 73, no. 3 (2003): 427-455.</ref> [[Dodoth people|Dodoth]],<ref>Hazama, Itsuhiro. "A review of Kaori Kawai's works on Dodoth and raiding." ''Nomadic Peoples'' 14, no. 2 (2010): 164-167.</ref> [[Kalenjin people]]<ref>Karani, Shiyuka Elvis. ''Religious Experience of the Kalenjin of Kerio-Valley Cultural Complex, Kenya, 1800-1965.'' PhD Diss., Kenyatta University. 2023.</ref> Haruspication has also been practiced in Kenya, such as the [[Kamba people|Kamba]]<ref>Harris, Grace. "Possession “Hysteria” in a Kenya Tribe 1." ''American Anthropologist'' 59, no. 6 (1957): 1046-1066.</ref> and the [[Kipsigis people|Kipsikis]].<ref>Barton, Juxon. "Notes on the Kipsikis or Lumbwa Tribe of Kenya Colony." ''The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 53 (1923): 42-78.</ref>
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