This Magnificent African Cake: Film Analysis

Being a high school history teacher can be difficult, but by using the right resources a teacher can effectively teach a class and allow the students to learn and understand the content. More specifically, for a tenth grade classroom setting, introducing new ideas on certain topics require help. Films do an excellent job conveying points to the viewer and are a great resource for teachers. For a curriculum based on Africa’s colonization there two films that explain the strain of events fairly well, The Magnificent African Cake and film The African Tools of Exploitation. However, there are many things that a film being shown to a tenth grade class require, such as a well-organized and chronological order of events, vital information regarding …show more content…
In This Magnificent African Cake the beginning of the film starts early on in the colonization process of Africa and showing how it all began, whereas The African Tools of Exploitation film begins in a modern day city in Africa and describes problems with modern day africa. Following a film should be easy, however the African Tools of Exploitation film is too difficult to follow right from the beginning. In the This Magnificent African Cake film the timeline of events that occur are very chronological and are in order, which allows a high school viewer to understand the film. However in the film The African Tools of Exploitation the order of events are very spread out and do not follow one another. For example the jump between the modern day african scene to the workers in a small village is hard to understand and does not make much sense. This Magnificent African Cake film can improve the knowledge of a tenth grade class better than the film The African Tools of Exploitation, because it introduces the content well and allows the viewer to follow the content …show more content…
First, This Magnificent African Cake film is more fit for a highschool viewer than the film the African Tools of Exploitation, because it can be easier to understand and is chronological order. Second, the film This Magnificent African Cake does a better job presenting more valuable information and not incorporating unnecessary scenes rather than the African Tools of Exploitation. Lastly, the film The African Tools of Exploitation includes very bias comments by the narrator and in This Magnificent African Cake the author shows no emotion and his delivery is unbiased, which is better for a tenth grade classroom. In conclusion the film This Magnificent African Cake does a better job introducing Africa’s colonization and the events that coincide, presenting critical content and concepts, as well as not being bias towards the