For the Bantu, force is not an attribute of beings but their very nature.

Evidence

I believe that we should most faithfully render Bantu thought in European language by saying that the Bantu speak, act, and live as if, for them, beings are forces. For them, “Force” is not an adventitious, accidental reality. “Force” is even more than a necessary attribute of beings: “Force is the nature of Being, Force is Being, Being is Force.” — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 229

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of the Identity Thesis — Force = Being — central to Bantu ontology.
• DEEPTHINKING: This radical identification of force with being (not as predicate but as substance) is the load-bearing claim of the entire Bantu philosophical project, inverting Western substance ontology.