Knowledge is Power

History tells us that human dignity has not been always in the forefront. It is only in 1945 after the II world war when the United Nation publicly proclaimed on the necessity of human dignity. Generally, human rights and human dignity mostly seem not to have a big distinction but as far as the definition of terms is a concern, we will have to agree that human rights are derived from human dignity.  Philosophically speaking, one will have to ask on what it entails to be a human being. In the history of Philosophy, we come across Fredrick Hegel who seems not to include African in the world of intellectuals.