Berenson's book is an interesting history of how the French and English imperialism carved
up Africa in the late nineteenth century. He does this by examining the actions of five men
who "contributed...to a colonial enterprise that expressed and reinforced Europe.s racial
stereotypes about Africa and Africans and inflicted considerable sufferingracial ste reo
types about Africa and Africans and inflicted considerable suffering in ... the 'Dark
Continent.'. These were Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon,
Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey.

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