Tempels generalized the Baluba worldview to all Africans

Evidence

Tempels was being faithful to what he saw and understood to be African. Thus, his generalization was based on the belief that the truth he had observed about the Baluba was also true for all Africans. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 446

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the broader African philosophy debate on ethnophilosophy and the particular-universal tension, echoing wiredu and hountondji critiques.