# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/festus-iyayi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:37:18.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/festus-iyayi"
name: "Festus Iyayi"
slug: "festus-iyayi"
description: "Festus Iyayi was a Nigerian leftist writer, best known for advancing his politics through realist novels depicting the sociopolitical environment of contemporary Nigeria. He was also a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He died in a road accident on his way to Kano."
tagline: "Nigerian writer (1947–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-09-29"
deathDate: "2013-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.49
  momentum:             3.017751479289941
  historical:           5.474586666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus_Iyayi"
    title: "Festus Iyayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "فيستوس اياى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus_Iyayi"
    title: "Festus Iyayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%8F%D0%B9%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Ияйи, Фестус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "فستوس ایایی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus_Iyayi"
    title: "Festus Iyayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump