Wole Soyinka's Daughter Dies at 48

A daughter of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka, has died at age 48.

She died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital where she was being treated for an undisclosed ailment.
Africanspotlight was able to reach a family member of the professor who confirmed the sad news on phone.

According to a statement signed by Jahman Anikulapo, an aide to Mr. Soyinka, the late Iyetade Soyinka was a student at the Staff School and Queens School, Ibadan before she studied Medicine at the University of Ibadan.


The deceased was described 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.