A Black Boy at Eton

[A] frank and reflective memoir … An important story to tell * The Guardian *
[An] electrifying memoir … I started reading, and the story he had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn’t let me go … Dillibe Onyeama’s story about landing in the hostile environment of Eton College is a personal one, but the questions it raises have much wider repercussions – Bernardine Evaristo * New Statesman *
A powerful insider account of systemic racism inside Eton during the sixties * Bustle *

Dillibe Onyeama (Author)

Dillibe Onyeama is a Nigerian author and publishing executive, who founded the publishing company Delta Publications (Nigeria) Limited. In 1968, he became the first black person to finish their studies at Eton College, and went on to attend The Writers’ School of Great Britain. He has published twenty-eight books - both fiction and non-fiction - covering a wide range of subjects, including biography, education and self-improvement. He lives and works in his native Enugu, in south-east Nigeria.

Bernardine Evaristo (Introducer)

Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. In 2025 she was awarded the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in 2009 and an OBE in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time’s Style magazine. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband.

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