Essay Assignment
Length: 4 to 5 pages.
Background
In The Philosophy of History (1837), Georg Hegel, an influential German philosopher, stated: "At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit . . . . What we properly understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical, Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature, and which had to be presented here only as on the threshold of the World's History." More than one hundred years later, the British professor, Hugh Trevor-Roper, echoed Hegel's assertions in his book, The Rise of Christian Europe: "Perhaps in the future there will be some African history to teach. But at the present there is none; there is only the history of Europeans in Africa. The rest is darkness, and darkness is not the subject of history" (1964).
Task
Write an essay in which you critically reflect and respond to Hegel's and Trevor-Roper's comments above about Africa.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.