 I refer to this as the worrisome version of traditionalism because Hountondji and others have made room for the possibility of a less worrisome, more critical form of traditionalism. Paget Henry, for example, has reclaimed the notion of ethnophilosophy to denote an historically and culturally rooted corrective to overly abstract accounts of the unity of Africana philosophy. He puts it this way: “In spite of the controversy that has raged over the practice of ethnophilosophy, I think it is a necessary component … of all Africana-oriented philosophies” (Henry 2000, 154).