 Karp and Masolo’s (2000) description of this new, post-utopian phase tracks important dynamics unfolding in Africana communities across the world. In some places it often took the form of reflections on the disappointments of post-racialism, in many places focused intently on the exaggerated optimism and subsequent disappointments of the Obama era. Elsewhere it took the form of reflections on neoliberalism or on the imperatives not of anti-colonial struggle or post-colonial critique but of decolonial transformation. Central to all these cases, though, was the challenge of adapting Africana philosophical resources to evolving political conditions in the wake of the Cold War, in the throes of a global war on terror and a multipolar scramble for post-imperial influence.