Newsonspot reports that Dilibe Onyeama, Nigerian writer, publisher and author of the controversial novel, Nigger at Eton, is dead.
He died on Thursday 10 November after suffering a fatal heart attack.
The exit of the 71-year-old was announced by his son, Dillibe Junior via his Facebook page on Friday.
The grieving son said that he had learnt massively from his father’s life.
“Even though we were far apart, I have never stopped loving you; never stopped thinking about you.
“I’ve learned a lot from your life, your love, and your motivational words. Until we meet in the resurrection morning sweet daddy.
“Go with God. This isn’t goodbye,” Dillibe Jr. wrote.
Onyeama, the son of Charles Onyeama, justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) became the first black boy to be registered to attend Eton College on the day of his birth on 6 January 1951.
He later attended preparatory school at Grove Park in Sussex, before becoming a pupil at Eton in 1965, and leaving in 1969. On entering Eton, he became the second black boy ever to be a pupil at the prestigious school.
Onyeama was famous for his controversial novel, “Nigger at Eton”, which he wrote as a teenager, and published by Leslie Feewin Limited in 1972, where he detailed the racial discrimination and bullying he faced at Eton College, the elite British boarding school in United Kingdom (UK).
The book resulted in his being banned from visiting the school by then-headmaster Michael McCrum.
The novel was later republished by Penguin in 2022 with the title
A Black Boy At Eton.
In 2020 the schools present headmaster, Simon Henderson, offered Onyeama an apology for the treatment he had received. Onyeama said he would return to Eton to accept the apology as long as the costs of his trip were covered.
Onyeama’s books include: Nigger at Eton ((republished as A Black Boy At Eton in 2020), Revenge Of The Medicine Man, Secret Society, Chief Onyeama; The Story of an African God, The Return: Homecoming of a Negro from Eton and Godfathers of Voodoo.
Condolence messages have been pouring in following Onyeama Snr.’s demise.
