Tempels’s openness enabled genuine African-Western philosophical dialogue

Evidence

However, the conclusion is valid that Tempels’s mission succeeded in an important way. On the basis of philosophical perspectives, Africans and Westerners started a dialogue with each other. The openness of the Bantus and Tempels for each other turned out to be a valuable condition for dialogue between the African and the Western other. From a dialectical perspective, one could even question to whom Bantu Philosophy belongs above all? Does it belong to the Flemish Franciscan researcher who recommends it to the Western world? Or rather to the Bantu people who, without realising it, provided the source material for their philosophical insights? Or is Bantu Philosophy an integral part of the works of world philosophy? — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1034

Categorization

• XREF: The question of cultural-intellectual ownership of a hybrid work parallels debates over who owns decolonial theory and hybrid knowledge forms raised elsewhere in the reader’s philosophy reading.