Tempels, following Stefano Kaoze, originated the communitarian personhood view

Evidence

As already stated, the communitarian view has come to be associated with Mbiti and Menkiti. However, there is one instance where Didier Kaphagawani (2006) insists that the origins of this view are to be found in Tempels’s work. I find Kaphagawani’s claim plausible as Tempels, who follows Stefano Kaoze’s Bantu Psychology, is the first to rely on this sort of framework to develop a philosophical conception. While Tempels’s usage of “force” may detract his reader from seeing the thoroughgoing nature of his communitarian view, Tempels is actually the first thinker, in African philosophy at least, to make the status of a person dependent on the community. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Places Tempels as origin of the communitarian personhood now associated with Mbiti and Menkiti — a kind of contested genealogy of African philosophy, relevant to hountondji’s critique of ethnophilosophy.
• QUESTION: Might be worth chasing the actual recorded link from Tempels back to Stefano Kaoze’s Bantu Psychology — what exactly did Tempels draw from it.