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.
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