Andrew
was born to Jamaican parents in 1965 & was raised and educated in Walthamstow, East London.
Known to this day for his humour & lively personality, Andrew
joked his way through Stoney Down Primary and Beaconsfield & William
Morris Secondary schools leaving in 1982 with seriously unfunny
exam results.
Since 1983 however, a change had taken place in
Andrew. A Christmas gift from his older brother Michael,
A Black History Book about Malcolm X, had encouraged him
for the first time to read something he was not forced to
by the school curriculum. The book
awakened a hunger in Andrew to know about history, the history
of the human race, and most particularly Black people.
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He
became motivated enough to achieve a National Diploma in
Business Studies and became an underwriter in 1986. Almost
overnight Andrew went from a person who had to be forced
to read to an avid reader who devoured everything he could
lay his hands on. Through Pliny, Herodotus, Godfrey Higgins,
J.A. Rodgers, MacRitchie & Cheik Anta Dio, Andrew’s
search for The Hidden Truth had begun.
Using the humour & lively personality that worked against
him in school Andrew began to explain what he’d learned
to friends. Soon he was invited to meet friends of friends
and give them the breakdown too.
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He outgrew their sitting
rooms pretty quickly and began to hire halls launching The
Hidden Truth Tours which have to-date taken him as far afield
as Egypt. In 1993 no longer having time for underwriting he began
instead to support himself through the tours and working
in education, visiting schools and prisons and speaking on
Radio. Everywhere he went he was encouraged to put what he
taught into book form and with Free Your Mind he has done
that, Andrew hopes that Free Your Mind will become as much
a source of enlightenment to Black people, young and old,
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