Sad news: Wole Soyinka loses daughter to illness

by ‘Jola Sotubo

Wole-Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has lost one of his daughters.

Iyetade Soyinka, the second daughter of the revered writer, is said to have died after a brief illness.

She is said to have given up the ghost at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital at the age of 48.

A statement signed by Prof. Soyinka’s aide, Jahman Anikulapo, reveals that the late mother of two was being treated for an undisclosed ailment at the hospital where she died.

“The late Iyetade Soyinka was a student at staff School and Queens School, Ibadan and she later furthered her studies at the University of Ibadan school of medicine,” the statement reads.

She is described as an “affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious” woman. Despite her health woes, the late Iyetade Soyinka “greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two children.”

“Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews.” No funeral arrangements were announced in the statement.

May her soul rest in peace.

 

 

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