Tempels’s rehabilitative project also asserted Bantu-Western difference.

Evidence

Tempels’s project could be seen as having a dual intent: performing a rehabilitative philosophical exercise on the Muntu while at the same time maintaining the difference between the Muntu and the Westerner. This conflicting commitment has caused a mixed reception in the African academy to Tempels’s project. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 429