It is the set of all forms, models or patterns, explicit or implicit, through which a society regulates the behavior of the people who make it up. As such it includes customs, practices, codes, norms and rules of the way of being, dress, religion, rituals, behavioral norms and belief systems.
Africa knew little and nothing. Fifteenth-century scholars summed up their knowledge by writing about the maps of the continent "Ibi sunt leones" and the most encyclopedic head until the nineteenth century, which was that of Hegel, described blacks as a child race and Africa As "... the ahistorical spirit, the undeveloped spirit, still wrapped in the conditions of the natural.