Here’s a short excerpt you can use as a pull quote or promo text:

The past is not past when the university still has the campus, the bank still has the charter, the insurer still has the market position, the neighborhood still has the property value, and the excluded family is still told to improve its budget.

That is not a gap.

That is a scaffold.

Before Europe called Africa a resource, Africa was already a world of systems: people governed, farmers planted, traders measured value, elders carried memory, and communities prepared the next generation.

The deeper tragedy is not only that Europe extracted from Africa; it is that Europe trained much of the world to see extraction as discovery.