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.
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So sad.
May her soul rest in peace.
Nobel, take heart

RIP