From Hegel's "Lectures" in Werke:

"Africa is in general a closed land, and this maintains its fundamental character. . . The realm of the Absolute Spirit is so impoverished among them [the Africans] and the natural Spirit so intense that any representation which they are inculcated with suffices to impel them to respect nothing, to destroy everything . . . . Africa does not have history as such. Consequently, we abandon Africa, to never mention it again. It is not part of the historical world; it does not evidence historical movement or development."