A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding (1887) Book

I must give homage here to this book and this author. More than any other individual, Basil Davidson set me on a course to more deeply understanding not only Africa, but what Africa meant to me as a white North American concerned about justice. I have no doubt that a lot of research has been done since to expand on and clarify, and even correct, what is in this book. I also know that Africans, not the least of them Cheikh Anta Diop, who I read soon after reading Davidson, have written their own history. But I not only would not know what I know today without having started with Davidson, I would not be who I am. I also express gratitude for The Liberation of Guiné, also by Davidson (Penguin Books, 1969). This book introduced me to the revolutionary thinker Amilcar Cabral. It also gave me my first glimpse into the complexity of societies that is West Africa, a major source of the culture of the United States of America.