Donald Hinds was born in Jamaica in 1934. He emigrated to London (where his mother and step-father had settled) in 1955, and became a bus conductor. His Journey to an Illusion: the West Indian in Britain was published by Heinemann in 1966, and reprinted in London in 2001. The reprint by Bogle-l’Ouverture Press is available: ex-library copies priced at over £200.
Index to Building Your Library
# 1 Neil Parsons, King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen. Tswana 1895
# 2 Nancy Cunard
# 3 Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
# 4 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
# 5 Brew family of Ghana and London
# 6 Booker T Washington; Chief Alfred Sam
# 7 Wellesley Cole, Kossoh Town Boy and An Innocent in Britain
# 8 Ira Aldridge
# 9 Paul Robeson, Negro, 1927
# 10 The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol 1
# 11 Jomo Kenyatta
# 12 Langston Hughes The Big Sea (1940) and Rampersad’s biography 1986, 1988
# 13 Percy Chen, China Called Me
# 14 Stimela Jingoes (Lesotho) recalled France in 1917; Herbert Julian Black Eagle memoir of a Trinidad aeroplane fanatic trained in 1910s England
# 15 Thomas L. Johnson, Twenty-eight Years a Slave (Bournemouth 1909)
# 16 Donald Hinds, Journey to an Illusion (1966).