BREAKING NEWS: Wole Soyinka's Daughter Dies

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.”