According to Wikipedia, “Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body. This doctrine is a central tenet of the Indian religions”. To what extent have such dualist assumptions, endemic in our own western epistemology, prejudiced our interpretation of eschatologies elsewhere in the world? African cases of rebirth suggest more unitary, emergent understandings of the transfer of a personal identity, which may shed light on the better-known instances of reincarnation in Asia. The assertion that Lukoho, a Ugandan lad, is his grandfather implicates not only them but the broader web of intergenerational relationships in which they are both enmeshed.