Only Western-educated African intellectuals initially engaged with Bantu Philosophy.

Evidence

The situation in Africa was not much different. There were very few Africans who welcomed the publication of Bantu Philosophy. These were mostly African intellectuals, who studied in European and American Universities and who, because of their exposure to the West, were familiar with the subject matter of philosophy and could engage with it. Apart from the evolues, to use Tempels’s own term for the African intellectuals, discussion about Bantu Philosophy meant nothing to the vast majority of Africans. Needless to say, at that time average Africans did not know how to read and write in their own languages. It is, therefore, not realistic to expect them to read French or English, let alone understand a philosophical discourse of the kind found in Bantu Philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 103

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 103
• XREF: connects to: Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy challenged colonial assumptions that Africans could not think logically. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 69