Dillibe onyeama biography of michael

Nigerian author, publisher (–)

Charles Dillibe Ejiofor Onyeama (6 January – 10 November ) was a Nigerian author and publisher.^[2][3][4] In , he became the first black person to finish his studies at Eton College in England.^[5] He wrote a book about his experiences of racism at Eton, Nigger at Eton, which resulted in his being banned from visiting the school by then-headmaster Michael McCrum.^[6]

Biography

Dillibe Charles Onyeama was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in ,^[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