The civilizing-mission ideology persists today disguised as globalisation and development

Evidence

The civilizing mission is such an idea, such an idol that survives under the guise of globalization, democratization, free markets, development, human rights and even “Christian values.” Did Tempels succeed in exorcizing such a demon? Is his approach a genuine solution, or part of the problem? — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 669

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chapter poses whether Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy is itself complicit in or a cure for the civilizing-mission idol — worth tracking how Dokman resolves this.
• SEED: Strong angle: tracing the survival of ‘civilizing mission’ rhetoric through modern humanitarian and development discourse.