Perhaps it was Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian writer. If not, Mr. Lovelace comes close enough in his novel, The Wine of Astonishment.
Wine is a novel about religion, politics, and the politics of religion.
It is also about education and the hypocritical need for a messiah to bring relief. It shows how the colonial education system, whether intentional or not, alienates the student from his own people, without delivering on the perceived promise of acceptance into white society. And although history is always written by the victors, such is not always the case with literature. The impetus for the tragedy in Wine is implicit in Trinidad's origins. Trinidad in the nineteenth century .