I agree that Hegel is at best dangerous. I don't think that anyone here is arguing taht the backlash of any 18th or 19th century theorist's comments on "Africa" or "Africanism" were anything but devastating and I don't think you will find anyone who dismisses those effects anywhere else either. Contained within his critique is a teleology of morals embedded in language that was eventually to be one of the major weapons of neo-imperialism, and I think that to dismiss his shortcomings as being purely tied up in his dealings with Africa, to insinuate that the locus of contradiction in his work is Africa, is to be a little to forgiving to Hegel. He was blind about what it took nihilists, marxists, freudians, post-structuralists and many others years to grapple with, understand and then get into the public discourse; that morals are made and not naturally occurring. It is not that Hegel merely made a mistake when talking about Africa, but that he was conceited in a much greater context and when dealing with Africa is when it is most apparent.

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