African traditional religions were not offered a reliable assessment when they were first documented. Most publications on this topic are quick to mention Sir Samuel Baker and Sir Burton without delving deeper into the nature of work they undertook before arriving at their conclusions. Of course, they were inspired by their Eurocentric and Western assumptions. Nevertheless, this book insists on the relevance of engaging more closely at their ‘contentions’ and ‘intentions’ as documented in their works. In this chapter, I disinter some aspects of Sir Baker’s works: The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs and Ismailia: A narrative of the expedition of central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt and Sir Burton’s The lake regions of central Africa: A picture of exploration vol. 2 in order ascertain the context of their ‘pronouncements’ and also indicate just how colonial racism is expressed in their treatises of these two Europeans, which would later serve as one of the reasons for initiating the urge to defend the ‘misrepresented.’ After indicating why their submissions are inapplicable, I consider three other inadequate concepts for talking about the nature of God in ATRs.