 The first phase of Africana philosophy’s emergence eventually gives way to a period of establishment and consolidation for the field as a field. During this time the themes and concerns from the earlier philosophies born of struggle, inflected by regional concerns, make their way into the orbit of professional philosophy. Along the way, they get translated into the distinctive vocabularies of the discipline’s subfields and methodological schools, creatively expanding those vocabularies in the process. (Or they acknowledge the possibility of this translation and resist or complicate it.)