Phebean Ajibola Ogundipe, née Itayemi, OON (1927-2020) was a Nigerian author and civil servant.
Writing as Phebean Itayemi, she became the first Nigerian woman to be published in English, after winning a British Council short story competition.
[1] Ogundipe story Nothing So Sweet won a 1946 British Council competition for the western region of Nigeria, coming ahead of the contributions of T. M. Aluko and Cyprian Ekwensi.
[2] The story portrays a teenage girl who endures abduction as part of an attempt to conclude an arranged marriage.
At the end of the story the young woman achieves freedom, leaving her village at night to train as a nurse.