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Monday 30 December 2013

Wole Soyinka’s 2nd daughter Iyetade confirmed dead at 48


Iyetade Soyinka, the second daughter of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is dead, aged 48. Ms Soyinka, formerly Iyetade Apampa,
A statement confirming the sad news was released on Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Soyinka’s close aide Jahman Anikulapo (former Editor of the Guardian) on behalf of the family. She died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital after a brief illness leaving
behind two children and her parents.
Death is such a wicked visitor, its grabs your most needed ones.
Anikulapo described Iyetade as an ‘affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious’ lady who ‘struggled with her health in recent years’.
Burial arrangements have not been announced yet.

May her peaceful soul rest in peace, AMEN.

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