By SaharaReporters, New York
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.