...both metaphors in his characterization of Africa, along with a judicious injection of the primeval: "It is the Gold-land compressed within itself —the...history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night" (p. 91). Dialectical progress is presented as self-diagnostic. Civilization moves forward by educating...

...along with a judicious injection of the primeval: "It is the Gold-land compressed within itself—the land of childhood which lying beyond the day of self-conscious...history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night" (p. 91). Dialectical progress is presented as self-diagnostic. Civilization moves forward by educating...

...essence, a permanence, a fixity that by definition resists change over time. Thus, Hegel's Africa—"the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self-conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mande of Night" 12 —holds a number of striking similarities to the plantation tradition's black South;...

...... as far as History goes back, has remained — for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World — shut up; it is the Goldland compressed within...history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night."" Few midcentury scholars in the United States, much less the man or woman in the street, had read Hegel,...

...proper, as far as History goes back, has remained - for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World - shut up; it is the Gold-land compressed within...history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night' (Hegel 1956: 91). To be a little more exact, this lamentable condition typifies sub-Saharan Africa...

...proper, as far as History goes back, has remained - for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World - shut up; it is the Gold-land compressed within...the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night. (Hegel 1956: 91) Africa, like the...

...proper, as far as History goes back, has remained — for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World — shut up; it is the Gold-land compressed...nature, but essentially in its geographical condition. Regardless of the fact that Africa contains all three of the main geographical divisions, "Africa proper"...

...he wrote in the introduction, "has remained— for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World— shut up; it is the Gold-land compressed within...history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night" (91). The German philosopher concludes his abbreviated discussion of Africa: "What we properly understand...

...history, their populations doomed to fall by the wayside. Thus Africa, according to Hegel, has no history: "It is the Gold-land, compressed within itself—...history is enveloped in the dark mantle of night" (91). And as to "Negroes" being "enslaved and sold to America," writes Hegel, "bad as this may be,...

...denied Africa the historical depth that was the essence of a civilization: it 'has remained shut up' in itself, 'the land of childhood, which, lying beyond...self-conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of night';4 it scarcely has any existence of its own except on world maps, where its location has hardly...