European disparagement of Africans is the raison d’être of African philosophy

Evidence

I have taken time to describe factors of the European disparagement of Africans at length because it constitutes one of major reasons that Bantu Philosophy was brought into existence, and it is that which is still fueling discussions about African philosophy today. The day Africans feel the world respects the humanity of Black people, and they are accorded the rights and opportunities that other human beings enjoy, will be the day that African philosophy is deprived of its main agenda, its raison d’être. So, without the background of European disparagement of Africans, Bantu Philosophy would not have seen the light of day. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 141

Categorization

• XREF: States the book’s central thesis in compressed form — that Bantu Philosophy is a reaction-formation to colonial disparagement. — connects to: Hegel’s philosophy constructed Africa as historyless to justify European conquest — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 39