 Africana philosophy of course puts many more themes in play than these few. But extending the list and reducing the space available for explaining what the list means is at this point less useful than considering what it means for this enterprise to be rooted in overlapping sociohistorical contexts. This requires shifting from a study of unifying themes to a reflection on the centrifugal forces that pull Africana philosophers in the direction of distinctive regional and methodological preoccupations.