After watching both The Bible and the Gun and The Magnificent Cake, I have a better understanding of the European ascent into Africa. The Bible and the Gun is about European missionaries who came to Africa and try to convert the natives to Christianity. The missionaries believed the natives were uncivilized and needed to be converted to Christianity so they could become equal with the white Europeans.
By allowing the white men to settle on their land, the natives allowed the Europeans to take away their land, tax them, a