The Governor's Story: The Authorised Biography of Dame Hilda Bynoe

by Merle Collins

One of the very first local governors in the Caribbean in the years before independence, and the first woman--and black woman, at that--to be appointed governor anywhere in the Commonwealth, Dr. Hilda Bynoe's appointment placed her at the heart of local, regional, and international change, and later of conflict. This biography, the only authorized account of Bynoe's life, probes beyond the governor's story for its antecedents and its meaning in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845232240
• ISBN13: 9781845232245
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"