Mabel Segun

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Mabel Segun
Ondo City, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
EducationUniversity of Ibadan
Occupations
  • Poet
  • playwright
  • children's writer
  • broadcaster
Notable workMy Father's Daughter (1965)
AwardsNigeria Prize for Literature

Mabel Segun, NNOM (born 1930) is a Nigerian poet, playwright and writer of short stories and children's books. She has also been a teacher, broadcaster, and a sportswoman.[1]

Biography

Born in

Ondo City, Nigeria, she had her secondary school education at CMS Girls' School Lagos. She attended the University of Ibadan, graduating in 1953 with a BA degree in English, Latin and History. She taught these subjects in Nigerian schools, and later became Head of the Department of English and Social Studies and Vice-Principal at the National Technical Teachers' College, Yaba (now Yaba College of Technology
).

Her first book, My Father's Daughter, published in 1965, has been widely used as a literature text in schools all over the world, and her books have been translated into German, Danish, Norwegian and Greek.[1] Her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992).[2]

Segun has championed children's literature in Nigeria through the

Munich, Germany.[3]

She was a founding member of the Association of Nigerian Authors, established by Chinua Achebe in 1981.[4][5][6][7]

Awards and honours

As a broadcaster, Segun won the

Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation 1977 Artiste of the Year award.[2]

In 2009, she received the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM) for lifetime achievements.[8]

In 2015, the Society of Young Nigerian Writers under the leadership of Wole Adedoyin founded the Mabel Segun Literary Society, aimed at promoting and reading the works of Mabel Segun.[9]

In 2007, Segun was awarded the LNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.[1]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^
    Nigerian Entertainment Today
    . Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  2. ^
    Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent
    (1992), London: Vintage, 1993; p. 372.
  3. ^ Mabel Segun's Citation and Summary of Achievements. Nigerian National Merit Awards, Government of Nigeria.
  4. ^ Edoro, Ainehi (5 November 2013). "Are You A Nigerian Writer? Why Join The Association of Nigerian Authors?--- Brittle Paper Q&A with Richard Ali". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  5. ^ "History of ANA". ananigeria.org. Association of Nigerian Authors. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  6. S2CID 226487570
    .
  7. ^ "'At 40, we are poised to celebrate our founding fathers'". Thenationonlineng.net. 21 February 2021. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  8. ^ "NNOM Laureates - Humanities" Archived 5 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 2009.
  9. ^ "Mabel Segun Literary Society". mabelsegunliterarysociety.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 November 2023.

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