Dillibe Onyeama


Dillibe Onyeama is a Nigerian author and publisher. In 1969, he became the first black person to finish their studies at Eton College. He wrote a book about his experiences of racism at Eton, Nigger at Eton, which resulted in him being banned from visiting the school by then-headmaster Michael McCrum.
He is the son of Charles Onyeama, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Judge at the International Court of Justice.

Biography

Dillibe Onyeama was born in Enugu, the second son of influential judge Charles Dadi Umeha Onyeama, and on the day of his birth became the first black boy to be registered to attend Eton College. Becoming a pupil there in 1965, and leaving in 1969, he wrote a book while still a teenager about his experiences of discrimination and bullying at the elite British boarding-school: Nigger at Eton, published in 1972 by Leslie Frewin Limited. In 2020 the school's present headmaster, Simon Henderson, offered Onyeama an apology for the treatment he had received.
Onyeama obtained a diploma from the Premier School of Journalism, before returning to Nigeria In 1981, and establishing the publishing company Delta Publications, based in Enugu

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