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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Is Bereaved! by oladoya(m): 11:45pm On Dec 29, 2013 |
... Iyetade Soyinka, a daughter of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, has died. Ms. Soyinka, who was born June 6, 1965, died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital where she was being treated for an undisclosed ailment. The death was disclosed in a statement signed by Jahman Anikulapo, an aide to Mr. Soyinka, one of the world’s foremost dramatists and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature. The statement noted that the late Iyetade Soyinka was a student at the Staff School and Queens School, Ibadan before she studied Medicine at the University of Ibadan. Mr. Anikulapo’s statement described the deceased as “affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious,” adding that she “struggled with her health in recent years.” Despite her health woes, the late Iyetade Soyinka “greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two children.”The statement, which was issued on behalf of the deceased’s family, revealed that Ms. Soyinka “took ill quite suddenly and passed away while being treated at UCH, Ibadan.“Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews.” No funeral arrangements were announced in the statement. SaharaReporters was unable to reach Professor Soyinka before press time. (Culled from Sahara Reporters) |
Re: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Is Bereaved! by WilyWily5: 12:31am On Dec 30, 2013 |
nah wa for death, don't even know the reason why God created death, the Yorubas that suppose to die don't die, but the one that don't have to die died. |
Re: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Is Bereaved! by Nobody: 12:37am On Dec 30, 2013 |
Wily+Wily: That also explains why creatures like you are still alive. |
Re: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Is Bereaved! by OmoTier1(m): 12:39am On Dec 30, 2013 |
@OP, IT IS SOYINKA's daughter and not Prof. SOYINKA himself... Please correct your misleading title |
Re: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Is Bereaved! by OAM4J: 1:38am On Dec 30, 2013 |
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