In 1969 Dillibe Onyeama became the first black person to finish their studies at Eton. While still a teenager, he wrote a book about his experiences of racism at Eton, Nigger at Eton (republished here as A Black Boy at Eton ), which resulted in him being banned from visiting the school In 2020 the school's present headmaster offered Onyeama an apology for the treatment he had received. Bernardine Evaristo: "What I find so interesting about his book is that Eton College has produced 20 British prime ministers, including a current one, so it is really the seat of the establishment in this country. It is the hothouse of the elites in this country. And when you read about his treatment as a Nigerian boy at that school at that time, it really makes you reflect seriously on the nature of the people who then went on to run this country in all the most important fields, in the last 50 years or so, because they were the boys he was at school with." Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation. Evaristo has written introductions for the books in the series. Featuring rediscovered works about Black Britain and the diaspora that were written over the past 100 years, the intention is to present a "body of work that illustrates a variety of preoccupations and genres that offer important and diverse Black British perspectives.

" The Booker Prize-winner says, "Our ambition is to correct historic bias in British publishing and bring a wealth of lost writing back into circulation. While many of us continue to lobby for the publishing industry to become more inclusive and representative of our society, this project looks back to the past in order to resurrect texts that will help reconfigure black British literary history." https://www.wpr.org/all-writing-political-author-bernardine-evaristo-tenacity-growing-black-and-british-and-winning.