The colonial mission produced effects opposite to the missionary’s own intentions.

Evidence

The matter is about how the colonial mission was enabled and what role men like Tempels played in the civilization of the Muntu. In particular, we must pay attention to how the intention that Tempels had ended up achieving the opposite of what was initially intended. It could just as well turn out to be the case that Tempels was unaware of the contradictions his situation had set for him and how he fell prey to those contradictions. However, what cannot be denied is that these contradictions had an effect on Tempels and what he subsequently presented as Bantu Philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 450

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• A well-meaning missionary’s work can unintentionally serve colonial oppression (similarity 0.95)
• Tempels sought to understand Bantu thought only after missionary conversion failed (similarity 0.89)
• Questioning African intellect forced rethinking of colonial administration and mission methods. (similarity 0.87)
• The Bantu Philosophy controversy tested the colonial civilizing-mission ideology at its foundation (similarity 0.86)
• Tempels’s project contained a self-contradictory affirmation and civilizing commitment (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial knowledge required portraying subjects as mysterious rather than ordinary (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels addressed Bantu Philosophy to colonizers seeking to Christianize Africans (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels’s missionary intent inverted into codifying Bantu philosophy (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels’s dialogue with Africans arose from failed missionary conversion efforts (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels learned Kiluba and ethnology after missionaries failed to convert Congolese (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels’s equality claims cost him his Congo mission post and drew dual criticism (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’s missionary context in King Leopold’s Congo shaped his philosophical position (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy was written as evangelization strategy responding to Luba resistance (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy remains seminal to African philosophy despite its missionary origins (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy aimed at more effective Christianization of the Bantu. (similarity 0.83)