Reading hegelian of the bases of the modern State in Africa

Abstract

This work wonders about the bases of the modern State in Africa through the work of Hegel. To confront the work of Hegel with African realities raises in oneself of the audacity because of its polemical thesis on the anhistoricity of the nonWestern cultures and especially those of Africa. However, the political thought of Hegel constitutes an original theoretical framework able to interpret the merriest topicality (like the prosperity of the nations) and absurdest (like a civil war or poverty). What the people are, they owes it with their history, their cultures and at their institutions. Authors like Hippocrates, Montesquieu and Karl Ritter had made geographical environment the factor of civilizations, technical and scientific progress of the people. But at Hegel, the men must at the modern State be free of a freedom which compénètre all spheres of the ethical life. Where the State is not, there is neither freedom nor progress