#VABlog. Wole Soyinka Loses Daughter at Age 48 #RIP

Daughter of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka,Iyetade Soyinka has passed on at the age of 48,Sahara Reporters report. 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.nephews."
No funeral arrangements were announced in the statement. SaharaReporters was unable to
reach Professor Soyinka before press time.

Culled from SaharaReporters
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