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In this work, the author discusses recent attempts to define African philosophy and the practice of hermeneutics to articulate a philosophy that is distinctively African. Using insights derived from Marx, Nietzsche, Levinas, Fanon, and others, he analyses the question of how we relate to our past (i.e. our heritage) and the open possibilities of our future. he carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy and argues for a historically engaged and existentially attuned paradigm shift. The result is an approach that explores the contemporary situation of African and African-American existence in view of emancipatory struggles that have established the confines of the present.

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Tsenay Serequeberhan is the author of The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy and the editor of African Philosophy: The Essential Readings.

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