This chapter offers a thematic examination of Bond’s work that captures early innovations, later developments, and connections between his scholarship and that of the previous generation of black anthropologists. The discussion highlights three aspects of Bond’s research agenda evident throughout his career: his reimagining of Africa and Africans within modernity; his challenging of dominant methodological and analytical approaches to social and political organization and, 3) his application of his work to discussions/debates outside of African studies and anthropology. Bond’s work demonstrates that African American vindicationist intellectual projects involve more than countering narratives that cast Africans and their descendants in a negative light.