Yeah this all sounds vaguely familiar, I guess when I read it I thought she was representing the European position (i.e. the colonizer sees Africa as outside of history) and why they were able to do such unique evil. Which actually isn't terrible and makes sense, you have to dehistoricize and dehumanize people to do great evil.

I'm going to have to revisit though because the idea Europeans "lowered themselves" to the level of Africans is pretty fuckin disgusting if so.