A State of Independence, by Caryl Phillips

Bertram Francis is a British West Indian who has spent the last twenty years away from the Caribbean. Now Independence is looming and he is going back to see the end of colonial rule. But the visit that Francis expects to be a nostalgic homecoming, and a celebration of Third World nationhood, turns sour. He has slowly to come to terms with the fact that he is now an outsider in the island he still considers home.