I sometimes wonder if Westerners go to these places for the thrill of danger. A fair number of people are adrenaline junkies, so maybe this is a variation of it.
There are a lot of "Adventure Tourist" roaming through Africa, but most "Europeans" (whites) are there working (Western business representatives, development workers, missionaries) or are second, third, fourth generation citizens, descendants of colonial settlers, government workers and missionaries.
Africa is awash with Europeans who either work for NGOs (did you know that European “NGOs” are state-funded?) or who are “volunteering”.
Because colonialism. Or because the Crusades. Who knows?
Anyway, there are probably more whites running things than back in the day. What’s changed is that they have no military backup and they have to channel most of the loot into the pockets of local Big Men who provide them with a small degree of protection in exchange for their managerial and scientific talents.
Occasionally, though, the whites have an Authentic African Experience like these diners in Bamako did.
As they say, T.I.A.