Bantu Philosophy challenged the colonial paternalism underpinning mission methods

Evidence

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tempels broke with colonial paternalism to defend African rational capacity; Pre-war Western thought deemed African belief illogical idolatry; Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule (+16 more)

Related

• Tempels broke with colonial paternalism to defend African rational capacity (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.82)
• Questioning African intellect forced rethinking of colonial administration and mission methods. (similarity 0.82)
• The Bantu’s deepest desire was recognition, not material improvement, under colonialism. (similarity 0.81)
• Ethnophilosophy debates are tied to colonial ideology and contested concepts of philosophy (similarity 0.81)
• Depriving colonized peoples of their own philosophy is the gravest colonial crime. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa (similarity 0.81)
• Critics charge that Bantu Philosophy served to safeguard colonial order and break African resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Recovering an African philosophy that ignores colonial alienation serves the colonizer. (similarity 0.80)
• Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy remains seminal to African philosophy despite its missionary origins (similarity 0.80)
• Césaire dismissed Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy as colonial deception (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.80)
• Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy challenged colonial assumptions that Africans could not think logically. (similarity 0.80)
• The Bantu Philosophy controversy tested the colonial civilizing-mission ideology at its foundation (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted #corroborates (0.50)
• Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule #corroborates (0.45)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa #qualifies (0.40)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized #complicates (0.35)