BREAKING: Daughter Of Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka Dies At 48 »

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.