Crahay distinguishes a worldview from philosophy proper and doubts Bantu philosophy exists

Evidence

Using a metaphor from aeronautic vocabulary, conceptual taking-off(décollage conceptuel), he asserts that Tempels and his disciples have not made a distinction between a “vision of the world” and philosophy proper. At best, what Tempels and his disciples have provided can be regarded as a meta-theory on the Bantu worldview (Crahay, 1965, pp. 64–65). … Crahay conceives of philosophy as an explicit, analytical discourse, radically critical and autocritical and systematic. He thinks philosophy as intellectual practice has to be different from uncritical descriptions of the worldviews, traditions, wisdom, and languages of a people. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 539

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crahay’s ‘décollage conceptuel’ distinguishes a lived worldview from strict reflective philosophy — a core distinction in the ethnophilosophy debate.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that no Bantu philosophy exists because it never achieved reflective, analytical discourse is a paradigm-defining argument in African philosophy — the crux of the entire ethnophilosophy controversy.