Mabel Segun

• Name — Mabel Segun • Honorific Suffix — NNOM • Born — 13 February 1930 • Birthplace — Ondo City, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria • Died — 6 March 2025 • Occupation — * Poet • playwright • children's writer • broadcaster • Education — University of Ibadan • Notable Works — My Father's Daughter (1965) • Awards — Nigeria Prize for Literature

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, was widely used as a literature text in schools all over the world, and her books have been translated into German, Danish, Norwegian and Greek. Her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992). Segun championed children's literature in Nigeria through the Children's Literature Association of Nigeria, which she founded in 1978, and the Children's Documentation and Research Centre, which she set up in 1990 in Ibadan. She was also a fellow of the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She was a founding member of the Association of Nigerian Authors, established by Chinua Achebe in 1981. Segun died on 6 March 2025, at the age of 95.