Mabel Segun

Mabel Segun (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 sports woman. 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).

Quotes

• I think there is no one of us who can boast of having telescopic eyes. But when you read, books become your telescopic eyes. You will see the whole world through the books you have been reading. And you become wiser. If you don’t read any book at all, you will rarely develop.
  • [1] Mabel advises Younger Generations.

• when I wrote My Father’s Daughter, some people said it was too good to be true; but it couldn’t be too good to be true, because if you set your mind in good things, you will do good things.
  • [2] Mabel talks about her book

• I still pay tribute to my English teacher, Mrs. Ore Cole, who taught me how to become a writer. It makes you wiser and more intelligent. When you read a lot you eventually want to become a writer.
  • [3]Mabel talks about her inspiration from her tutor.

• Some people who didn’t have better fathers said it was fiction. I said, ‘Well. if you didn’t have the kind of father that I had then there is no point in trying to belittle my own father. My father was a great man'.
  • [4] Mabel talks about her book

• When you write children’s literature, you write for different ages.
  • [5] Mabel talks about writing children's poem

• I like to revise my works to be as near perfect as possible.
  • [6]Mabel talks about the perfection of her books