For African indentures, upward mobility failed despite the same exclusion logic.

Evidence

The consequences of Tempels’s dual commitments are well known. His ideas expressed in Bantu Philosophy about the equality of the Muntu to the Westerner, were seen as too extreme by both the colonial administrators and the church. This led his own Franciscan congregation to recall him from the missionary work he loved so much in the Congo. The colonial administrators saw his views as too extreme if not equivalent to sedition. … At the same time, Tempels was not to receive universal acclaim in African circles. Some modern thinkers have seen his forays into Bantu philosophy as undermining the integrity of African thought. Others have gone as far as accusing him of complicity in the colonial mission’s oppressive agenda. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 432 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tempels’s egalitarian claims earned rejection from both colonizers and Africans — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 432; African liberation failed by preserving colonial structures under inept leadership — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1097; African communes were graded so natives never reached full French-style autonomy.

Broader Connections

• Tempels’s egalitarian claims earned rejection from both colonizers and Africans #complicates (0.72) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 432