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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Just in: Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka’s Daughter, Iyetade Soyinka Dies



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 demise was disclosed in a report closed by Jahman Anikulapo, an aid to Mr. Soyinka, one of many world's foremost dramatists and champion of the 1986 Nobel Reward in literature. The report observed that the late Iyetade Soyinka was students at the Team College and Queens College, Ibadan before she studied Medicine at the School of Ibadan.

Mr. Anikulapo's reports explained the death as “affable, wise and occasionally capricious,” saying that she “struggle with her health in past years.” Despite her health complications, the late Iyetade Soyinka “greeted each day with a lovely smile and doted on her two children.”
The report, that was given for the deceased'sfamily , shows that Ms. Soyinka “took ill really abruptly and died while being handled at UCH, Ibadan.
“Iyetade leaves behind 2 kids, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews.”
No funeral agreements were reported in the statement. OmoOodua blog tried to reach Prof. Soyinka but no avail.

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