The dialogue problem Tempels faced persists in the post-colonial era.

Evidence

And yet dialogue between Africa and Europe has proven difficult. Who needs dialogue? Why dialogue? How to dialogue? And for which purpose? These are the fundamental questions that need to be asked. The situation that Tempels found problematic in his day continues today in the post-colonial era. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 744

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Directly ties this chapter’s argument back to the core Tempels problem tackled throughout the book.

Related

• Tempels held that true dialogue requires Europeans to first abandon their superiority mindset. (similarity 0.88)
• Dialogue between Africa and the West is fraught when power is unequal (similarity 0.87)
• Dialogue between unequal powers can serve domination as easily as liberation (similarity 0.85)
• Monologue has dominated colonial encounters since the Hellenistic empire. (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels embraced dialogue as a categorical imperative for evangelization. (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels transcended colonial dichotomies yet still framed Christianity as the standard of humanity. (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’s dialogue with Africans arose from failed missionary conversion efforts (similarity 0.83)
• Shared problems across frontiers enable dialogue between postcolonial and First World contexts. (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels treats dialogue as an intrinsically political act (similarity 0.83)
• Genuine intercultural dialogue requires abandoning the colonial superiority complex (similarity 0.83)
• Evangelization failure led Tempels to dialogue-based mission methods. (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels’s openness enabled genuine African-Western philosophical dialogue (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial language partitions make intra-African philosophical exchange nearly impossible (similarity 0.81)
• Tempels generalized Luba religious conclusions to all Africans, overwriting local voices (similarity 0.81)
• Monologue has characterized colonial encounters since the Hellenistic empire and cost millions of lives (similarity 0.81)