Tempels held that true dialogue requires Europeans to first abandon their superiority mindset.

Evidence

1 Confession and mea culpa: Tempels understands that a genuine dialogue between Africa and Europe is not possible without acknowledging the major obstacle of the colonial superiority complex and the dogma that the “civilized” have nothing to learn from the “savage.” For Tempels, “coming out” of the Eurocentric mindset is a primary condition to dialogue. In other words, a radical paradigm shift involving a transformation of consciousness and a change of mindset is required to enter in dialogue. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 720

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with decolonial theory’s demand for epistemological rupture and echoes later thinkers like Mudimbe discussing colonial library and intellectual conversion.