One
of Prof Wole Soyinka’s children, Iyetade, has died in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, an online media group, Sahara
Reporters reports.
The
report says the death was disclosed by a culture activist and journalist, Mr Jahman
Anikulapo, who is one of aides to the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Prof. Soyinka.
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Iyetade died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital where she was being treated for an undisclosed ailment. She was born June 6, 1965.
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 (UI).
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.”
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