Dillibe Onyeama

Dillibe Charles Onyeama was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1951,^[7] the second son of Charles Onyeama, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Judge at the International Court of Justice who was himself the son of Onyeama of Eke, a ruling chief in the Nigerian chieftaincy system.^[6][8] On the day of his birth, he became the first black boy to be registered to attend Eton College.^[2] He attended preparatory school at Grove Park in Sussex,^[9] before becoming a pupil at Eton in 1965, and leaving in 1969. Onyeama wrote a book while still a teenager about his experiences of racist discrimination and bullying at the elite British boarding school, which has educated generations of British royalty and statesmen.^[10] The book titled Nigger at Eton, published in 1972 by Leslie Frewin Limited,^[11] was republished by Penguin in 2022 with the title A Black Boy at Eton.^[12]

In 2020 the school's present headmaster, Simon Henderson, offered Onyeama an apology for the treatment he had received.^[13] Onyeama said he would return to Eton to accept the apology as long as the costs of his trip were covered.^[9]

Onyeama obtained a diploma from the Premier School of Journalism, incorporating the Writers School of Great Britain before returning to Nigeria In 1981, and establishing the publishing company Delta Publications, based in Enugu.^[2][4]

Onyeama died from a heart attack on 10 November 2022, at the age of 71.^[14][15][16]

• Nigger at Eton, 1972 (later re-released as A Black Boy at Eton^[17])
• John Bull's Nigger, 1974
• Sex is a Nigger's Game, 1976
• Juju, 1977
• Secret Society, 1978
• The Return: Homecoming of a Negro from Eton, 1978
• Female Target, 1979
• Revenge of the medicine man, 1980
• Night Demon, 1982
• Chief Onyeama: The Story of an African God, 1982^[18]
• African Legend: The Incredible Story of Francis Arthur Nzeribe, 1984
• Godfathers of Voodoo, 1985
• The New Man: A Perspective in Evil, 2002
• Dadi: The Man, the Legend : an Intimate Portrait of His Excellency Judge Charles Dadi Onyeama of the International Court of Justice, The Hague, 2021