Lect. 8

“A question rises from the dark continent”

Africa was deemed as a dark continent

Hegel on Africa

• Africa is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit

• What we properly understand by Africa, the Unhistorical Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature

• Africa was said to be shrouded in darkness, not connected to the rest of the world

• large parts of Africa was decolonized by the 1950?

• Congo free from in 1960

• Patrice Lumumba: Speech, COngo’s Independence June 30,1960

C.L.R. James on African Decolorization

Lumumba was compared to a religious figure