Tempels’s colonial-era book provoked African philosophy into existence

Evidence

It is in this sense that we should appreciate the position of Tempels in the contemporary history of African philosophy. Seventy-five years since its first appearance, we are called upon to look back and, in the true spirit of philosophy, reassess the field of African philosophy and how it has been shaped to this point, taking special cognisance of the place that the work of Tempels occupies in that history. It is probably true that the story of African philosophy would not have been what it is today were it not for the amount of provocation that the little book by Tempels triggered. There are books and essays that are canonical in African philosophy today due largely to and because of what Tempels wrote and where both he and his ideas stood in relation to the colonial history of the continent. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 346

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific canonical works emerged ‘due to’ anti-Tempels provocation? Would be worth enumerating.