D.O. Fagunwa’s widow dies at 85

The wife of the foremost pioneer writer, D.O. Fagunwa, Chief Elizabeth Adebanke Fagunwa is dead. She died at 85 years.

She passed on in a Lagos hospital last Saturday evening.

In ”Celebrating D.O. Fagunwa: Aspects of Africa and World Literary History”, a definitive book on Fagunwa, edited by Adeleke Adeeko and Akin Adesokan, Chief Elizabeth Fagunwa spoke on the true story of Fagunwa’s death which was until then shrouded in mystery and half-truth.

She enjoyed tremendously the three day conference in Akure and the presentation of the book on her husband in Ibadan organised by the Fagunwa Study Group.