Tempels himself equated Bantu force with European being in his own text

Evidence

Neugebauer sees another contradiction in the way Tempels compares the Bantu-speaker and the European notion of being. Tempels’s view that Bantu philosophy implies a dynamic view of being is, unlike so-called “European philosophy,” expressed in the statement: “Force is being, being is force.” This conception of being remains all the same if Tempels is postulating that the “European” notion of being is, at least, equivalent to the “Bantu” notion of force or being. This is because, he says, “the notion of force takes for them the place of the notion of being in our philosophy” (Tempels, 1959, p. 52). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 558