Tempels confined African philosophy to a segregated conceptual ghetto

Evidence

My argument in this third part will seek to demonstrate that Tempels should be read as having provided sufficient ground to justify the suggestion contained in the title of this chapter that he enabled the Bantustanisation of African philosophy, effectively sending it to the ghetto of thought. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 428

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Bantustanisation metaphor is provocative — worth checking whether Dokman argues Tempels’s universalizing ontology trapped African philosophy in particularity or the reverse.
• SEED: A possible essay angle: how a ‘respectful’ ethnophilosophy can function as epistemic containment — the well-meaning patron as gatekeeper.