Nobel Laureate, Soyinka Loses Daughter

Iyetade Soyinka, a daughter of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, has died. Ms. Soyinka 48, died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital where she was being treated for an undisclosed ailment.

 

Her death was disclosed in a statement signed by Jahman Anikulapo, an aide to Mr. Soyinka, 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 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, parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews.”

 

May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace.