African philosophy texts arise from both European perception and African cultural resistance

Evidence

The argument advanced here is that Bantu Philosophy is a product of European perceptions of Africa and Africans as well as of the African people’s cultural resistance against European Christianity, which was planted on the continent in the late nineteenth century. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading-claim about decorum toward corpses, and to postcolonial theory generally — the dual-source thesis (oppressor’s gaze + colonized resistance) mirrors foundational postcolonial arguments.