‘I’m black, so you don’t have to be,’ Colin Grant’s uncle used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain, things were supposed to be different.

Homecoming draws on over a hundred interviews and memoirs by people who came to Britain from the West Indies in the1940s and the 1960s.

To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight’s, he is always known as Bageye.

One day Colin’s brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor.

At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet.

Over a decade, the trio of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their two-tone suits for dreadlocks to become the Wailers.