I believe that Hountondji, notoriously in ill-tempered rhetoric, and Wiredu were objecting to that sort of Tempelsian ethnographic projects.

Eze was discussing debates over ethnophilosophy and the work of Placide Tempels. He explained why thinkers such as Paulin Hountondji and Kwasi Wiredu criticized attempts to identify a supposedly “natural” collective African philosophy.