Mabel Segun: Nigerian children’s writer, poet and broadcaster

Mabel Segun: Nigerian children’s writer, poet and broadcaster

Mabel Dorothy Okanima Segun, who passed away on 6 March 2025, at 95, was a prominent figure in Nigerian literature. Her life was an extraordinary mix of broadcasting, children’s storytelling, poetry, playwriting, and sport. She captured human experience through the eyes of the young, as seen in her timeless work My Father’s Daughter (1965). In the book she writes, “I wanted to be like my father, strong and wise, but I learned that strength comes…

Mabel Segun: Nigerian Children’s Writer, Poet And Broadcaster - Global Upfront Newspapers

Mabel Dorothy Okanima Segun, who passed away on 6 March 2025, at 95, was a prominent figure in Nigerian literature. Her life was an extraordinary mix of broadcasting, children’s storytelling, poetry, playwriting, and sport. She captured human experience through the eyes of the young, as seen in her timeless work...