Gender silence is the main gap in Tempels’s Bantu philosophy

Evidence

The missing link for a complete African philosophy emanates from the silences on gender and the roles of women in shaping an African philosophical trajectory that exists in current literature. Likewise, the silences on gender and roles of women in Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy leaves a gap in what could have been a complete work of Bantu philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 954

The stages in development highlighted above constitute the development of an experience derived African Ontology, as indeed highlighted in Bantu Philosophy. In Bantu Philosophy Tempels argues that the Bantu had a clear vision of human dignity and the rights of the individual, which was also the central tenet of the principles of Pan-Africanism, negritude, humanism, Black consciousness and Ujamaa. The missing link for a complete African philosophy emanates from the silences on gender and the roles of women in shaping an African philosophical trajectory that exists in current literature. Likewise, the silences on gender and roles of women in Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy leaves a gap in what could have been a complete work of Bantu philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 954

Categorization

• SEED: Could become an article on ‘the gender gap in canonized African philosophy’ tracing omissions from Tempels to today.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 954