Georg Hagel's Impact Of African Politic Education In Africa

Africa always had the short end of the stick when it came to its reputation. It all started when a German philosopher named Georg Hagel visited Africa and made a very miss informative statement about it in 1837. In his own unwitting words, Hagel basically suggested that Africa was worthless, had no history, and that the people were wild. Word of Hagel’s statement spread to the western world and that particular stereotype has been around for a very long time. Over a century later, in 1964, another philosopher named Hugh Trevor-Roper went on a trip to Africa. The statement that he made about Africa was almost the same thing that Hagel’s statement said back in 1837, except that Roper suggested that the only history from Africa is that of the Europeans and the rest was worthless for the topic of history. What each of the philosophers said about Africa was absurd. Georg Hegel was from Germany and Hugh Trevor-Roper was from Britain. How could they possibly know the history? Let alone the political, educational, and religious side of Africa. The continent is made up of fifty four states. For them to make these kinds of statements was quite ignorant; you cannot just go to a piece of Africa and make observations for the whole continent. Politics have always been a part of Africa. In pre-colonial times, African

In pre-colonial Africa, the entire community or village were responsible for orally passing knowledge on to others – young or old. This kind of education was important because what was taught helped them meet the needs of their society. This was a very successful system of education. So much was passed on from generation to generation; for example, knowledge about nature was a very big part of education. That was probably very useful so that people knew which plants they could and could not use for things such as medication for