On April 29, 1964, thirteen-year-old Tokunbo Akanni Akintola, accompanied by his mother Faderera Akintola and a group of ambassadors, became the first black boy to attend “Britain’s most famous private school,” Eton College. He was 13 years old and the first black person to be accepted into a prestigious private college.
But death had another plan. In 1973, four years after leaving Eton, Tokunbo died. He was the son of Ladoke Akintola