Soyinka’s elder sister dies at 90

Mrs Tinuola Aina, the elder sister of Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has died at the age of 90, the family announced her funeral rites.

According to a statement from the family, Mrs. Tinuola Aina (nee Soyinka) passed on November 7, 2023.

The funeral rites will commence at 5pm on Thursday, December 7 with a Service of Songs in Lagos.

According to a public statement by the family, the two-day rites would end on Friday December 8 with a private interment in Lagos.

She was born April 29, 1933, and she was the first of seven children of a school teacher, Mr. Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, and trader-homemaker, Mrs. Grace Eniola Soyinka (neé Harrison) at Ake Vicarage, Abeokuta.

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