Colonial ‘civilizing mission’ ideology negated African morality and rationality

Evidence

The question of dialogue in Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy and Jamaa movement has to be understood in the context where it arose. This is the context of colonial negation of African morality, rationality and humanity itself carried by the civilizing mission ideology, which gained intellectual, philosophical, theological and cultural foundation in the colonial will to power and its economic interests. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to Conrad’s ‘exterminate all the brutes’ and to Achebe’s critique, which the reader has already absorbed — Things Fall Apart is in the library. — connects to: Civilizing-mission ideology deflected contradiction between French democratic values and colonial conquest
• ADDENDUM: The civilizing-mission logic parallels the justifications catalogued in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ and ‘On Sacrifice’ — how colonizers framed local practice as justifying occupation.