What is Mabel Segun?
{{Infobox person | name = Mabel Segun | image = Mabel Segun, 1983 (cropped).jpg | caption = Segun in [[Strasbourg]], 1983 | honorific_suffix = [[Nigerian National Order of Merit Award|NNOM]] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|02|13|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Ondo City]], [[Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|3|6|1930|02|13|df=y}} | death_place = | nationality = Nigerian | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Poet|playwright|children's writer|broadcaster}} | education = [[University of Ibadan]] | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''My Father's Daughter'' (1965) | awards = [[Nigeria Prize for Literature]] }} '''Mabel Segun''', [[Nigerian National Order of Merit Award|NNOM]] (13 February 1930 – 6 March 2025) was a Nigerian poet, [[playwright]] and writer of short stories and children's books who was also a teacher, broadcaster, and a sportswoman.<ref name=Taiwo>{{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}}</ref> Born in [[Ondo City]], Nigeria, she had her secondary-school education at [[St Anne's School, Ibadan|CMS Girls' School Lagos]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Taiwo|first=Jide|date=2017-02-01|title=At 87 years old, the matriach of Nigerian literature, Mabel Segun is truly the last of her kind|url=https://thenet.ng/at-87-years-old-the-matriach-of-nigerian-literature-mabel-segun-is-truly-the-last-of-her-kind/|access-date=2022-11-30|website=Nigerian Entertainment Today|language=en-US}}</ref> 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