| 词条 | Mabel Segun |
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| name = Mabel Segun | image = Mabel Segun Strasbourg.jpg | alt = | caption = Mabel Segun (left) in Strasbourg, 1983 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1930 | birth_place = Ondo City, Nigeria | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Nigerian | other_names = | occupation = Poet, playwright, children's writer, broadcaster | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Mabel Segun (born 1930) is a Nigerian poet, playwright and writer of short stories and children's books. BiographyBorn in Ondo City, Nigeria, she attended the University of Ibadan, graduating in 1953 with a BA 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. As a broadcaster, she won the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation 1977 Artiste of the Year award.[1] Segun has 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 is also a fellow of the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.[2] In 2009, Mabel Segun received the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award for her lifetime achievements.[3] In 2015, the Society of Young Nigerian Writers under the leadership of Wole Adedoyin founded the Mabel Segun Literary Society (www.mabelsegunaliterarysociety.blogspot.com), aimed at promoting and reading the works of Mabel Segun. Mabel Segun is a woman of many sides, a teacher, broadcaster, a writer and a sports woman.[4] She is still alive. Works
References1. ^Margaret Busby (ed.), An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent (1992), London: Vintage, 1993; p. 372. 2. ^Mabel Segun's Citation and Summary of Achievements. Nigerian National Merit Awards, Government of Nigeria. 3. ^"NNOM Laureates - Humanities", 2009. 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://thenet.ng/at-87-years-old-the-matriach-of-nigerian-literature-mabel-segun-is-truly-the-last-of-her-kind/|title=At 87 yrs old, Mabel Segun is truly the last of her kind|last=Taiwo|first=Jide|date=2017-02-01|work=Nigerian Entertainment Today|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en-GB}} External links
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