Tempels admitted his colonialist tabula rasa assumption was wrong

Evidence

We have had the idea that we stood before them like adults before the newly born … we believed we started with a “tabula rasa.” … Then all at once we discovered that we were concerned with a sample of humanity, adult, aware of its own brand of wisdom and moulded by its own philosophy of life. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 401

Categorization

• QUESTION: How sincere and consequential was Tempels’s recantation, given how heavily Bantu Philosophy still framed Africans through Belgian Catholic metaphysics?