What colonized Africans most desire is recognition of their full humanity.

Evidence

If, among évolués or “those who chase after the Whites” much seems completely materialized according to the pattern among so many colonisers, there is fortunately a greater number of them who still preserve something of this human dynamic faith of their fathers. What they want more than anything else is not improvement of their economic or material circumstances, but recognition of and respect for their full value as men by the Whites. Their greatest and deepest sorrow is that they are treated perpetually as half-wits, as “monkeys”, as nyama. In this profound exasperation they prove themselves worthy sons of their fathers. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 695

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Defines nyama (‘beast’) as the colonial term of dehumanization most wounding to Africans.
• XREF: Connects to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and to recognition-theory debates (Taylor, Honneth).
• SHARE: For someone into postcolonial theory or Frantz Fanon — Tempels noting that material advancement matters less to évolués than recognition of their humanity.

Related

• Educated Bantu sought recognition as full men, not material betterment (similarity 0.87)