A Black Boy at Eton: a memoir that still shocks 50 years on
Revisiting Dillibe Onyeama's groundbreaking account of being one of the first black Africans to study at the elite school.
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Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is an author and professor of creative writing at Brunel University London. Her 2019 novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize.
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