Read pages 823 and 824 in    Worlds of History and the letter from King Moshweshewe.  
The first source is a poem from Rudyard Kipling, a British power best known for writing The Jungle Book.  He was born in India and his experiences there were a major influence on his writing.  In this case, you have one of his most famous poems, “The White Man’s Burden”, which is a good summary of how Westerners viewed the people in their colonies.  It’s not clear if Kipling agreed with these ideas and it can be argued that he was writing satire.  Granted, it can also be argued that he’s being sincere.
The second source is a letter from Moshweshewe I, a member of the Basotho nation and the first king of Lesotho.  It’s a letter he wrote to Sir George Grey, a British official who at the time was the governor of Cape Colony.  It’s pretty straightforward, I think, and it gives an African perspective of what Europeans were up to.
I really want you to compare and contrast these two mindsets.  Really think about how Westerners and non-Westerners saw each other and try to explain why they felt that way.