 Having worked through the themes that emerged from Gordon’s deceptively simple definition of Africana philosophy, we are now in a better position to receive a similar but more elaborate definition. Outlaw describes “Africana philosophy” as “a third-order, metaphilosophical, umbrella-concept… . [T]he name does not refer to a particular philosophy, philosophical system, method, or tradition” (Outlaw 2017, §1, par. 1). It refers instead to a field of study that emerges from the distinctive conditions that produce and implicate Africa and its diaspora, that takes seriously the experiences and reflections of the peoples who are most directly affected and implicated by those conditions, and that, as a result of the first two factors, tends to feature certain recurring preoccupations or themes. Some of those preoccupations and themes appear above, and will receive more attention, alongside several additional themes, in the sections to come.