This edited volume offers a major reappraisal of contemporary hermeneutics through the lens of African philosophy. Moving beyond a text-centered model of interpretation, it shows how African hermeneutic traditions have reconfigured hermeneutics from within by engaging orality, myth, art, the lived body, memory, postcolonial history, and the search for a non-imperial universal. Across seventeen chapters, the book reconstructs the main currents of African hermeneutics from ancient interpretive traditions to ecological wisdom, narrative subjectivity, cultural restitution, and biblical interpretation. Its central claim is that meaning is never simply given: it is historically, symbolically, and practically mediated. This volume appeals to researchers and students; it brings African philosophy into dialogue with phenomenology, critical theory, theology, anthropology, and literary studies.  It makes an original contribution to debates on interpretation, decolonization, and universality.

A philosopher and physicist, David-Le-Duc TIAHA is Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie and a member of the Fonds Ricœur-CRAL-EHESS research team as well as of its scientific advisory board at the Institut Protestant de Théologie de Paris. Author of Paul Ricœur et le paradoxe de la chair (2009). His work explores the often neglected relationship between ethics and hermeneutics, the postcolonial condition and Negro-African clinical anthropology, as well as forms of self-attestation, articulating affects and discourse, implicit in biblical hermeneutics.

Across these different fields, his research is driven by a sustained inquiry into processes of emergence, resonance, event, and interpretation. This concern gives coherence to his dual engagement with philosophy and physics: in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and African philosophy, he examines how meaning, selfhood, and relation come into appearance; in the philosophy of quantum physics, he investigates the passage from the intuition of the quantum event or phenomenon to the interpretation of its reality within theoretical and experimental contexts.

His work thus unfolds as a continuous reflection on the conditions under which phenomena become intelligible, whether in lived experience, textual interpretation, intercultural encounter, or physical reality—the latter, moreover, being re-engaged from physical existence through flesh and body. David-Le-Duc TIAHA thereby brings a transdisciplinary perspective that opens new vistas on both sides, reconnecting philosophy with its organic function of mediation between the human and social sciences and STEM, conceived as a continuum.