Tempels imposed Western interpretive categories despite advocating local grounding

Evidence

Placide Tempels learned from the Bantu people by going their way. But although Tempels pleads for a conceptualized philosophy that should be grounded locally, he uses a Western-oriented interpretive framework for constructing his study of the philosophical and practical traditions of the Bantu peoples. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1017