THE CALCULUS A History of Extraction

This book exists because the arithmetic of a theft has never been done in public. The extraction of African wealth into European and corporate hands is documented, and the documentation is the extractor's own. The records that would have documented the extraction from the African side were destroyed, dispersed, or never written. The consequence is that the surviving evidence is one-sided, and the account has never been completed.

The book does not attempt to complete the account. The account cannot be completed with the surviving evidence alone, because the evidence that would have completed it is the evidence that was destroyed. The book does what can be done: it assembles the surviving evidence, it grades it, it states the method, it computes the ranges, and it makes the demand that a body with the power to compel disclosure now finish the work.