Nobel Laureate Soyinka’s Daughter Dies
Dec, 29 2013, 3:12PM — siteadmin
By SaharaReporters, New York
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. SaharaReporters was unable to reach
Professor Soyinka before press time.

This is so sad!!may her soul rest in peace.

Eeyah!!

Rip to d dead

Eeyaa...
RIP Iyetade.

Rip Iyetade.