Dilibe Onyeama, Popular Nigerian writer, publisher and author of the controversial novel, Nigger at Eton dies at 71. He died on Thursday night,10 November after suffering a fatal heart attack.Onyeama, the son of Charles Onyeama, justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and judge at the international Court of Justice became the first black boy to be registered to attend Eton College on the day of his birth on 6 January 1951.
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 later attended preparatory school at Grove Park in Sussex, before becoming a pupil at Eton in 1965, and leaving in 1969. His novel, Nigger at Eton, which he wrote as a teenager, and published by Leslie Feewin Limited in 1972, is about his experiences of racist discrimination and bullying at the elite British boarding school.The novel was later republished by Penguin in 2022 with the title A Black Boy At Eton. 
The Story of an African God, The Return: Homecoming of a Negro from Eton and Godfathers of Voodoo are some of his other books amongst others.
