Johannesburg – Nigeria’s Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has torn up his United States green card and renounced his American residency in protest at Donald Trump’s U.S. election win, the writer told news channel eNCA on Thursday.
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“I’ve done it,” said Soyinka, 82, when asked if he had followed through on an earlier vow to leave the United States if Trump triumphed in the race for the White House.
“When I was ready, when I’d finished, I negotiated my departure,” the Nigerian born author said in Johannesburg on the sidelines of a university conference.
Soyinka has had regular teaching stints at America’s ivy league universities since the mid 1990s following his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He was the first African writer to win the award.
A frequent and fierce critic of his own government, particularly over the carnage being inflicted by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria, Soyinka said he felt ill at ease in the wake of Trump’s shock victory.
“We on the African continent could boast that we had a contemporary descendent ruling the United States,” Soyinka said referring to outgoing President Barack Obama, whose father was a Kenyan.
“Suddenly, somebody is making speeches which are meant to reverse those gains.”
Fool! Go home. Who really cares? I suspect that all you would be doing here is collecting Social Security and being a liability to the Medicare system.
Why does the liberal media broadcast this rubbish. It is as important as ants that get squished by pedestrians. Newsworthy? Important for us to know? Why does VIN think we would care?
Goodbye–you can stay right there if our election results are not to your liking–enjoy your stay !!!! דמד
לחיים ולשלום don’t let the door hit you on the way out
Hu ?? U gotta b kidding.. What r we Gonna do now !!?? Can any one talk out Soyinka ?? We need him Badley ..
You should take all of your liberal meshpucha with you, including Whoopie Goldberg, Al Sharpton, Cher, and Martha Raddatz. Also, those who leave should never be allowed back in.
Immigrants are bad! Examples, Alexander Hamilton, Melania Trump, Wole Soyinka and the guy on my street who is constantly stealing my trash!
Here’s your coat. here’s your hat. Goodbye. We’ll try to manage without you somehow. By the way…..who is this guy?
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Can I help you pack?
Hope he has a safe flight. But wait is in living in his african build with american
money return that and stay there. for each one these there are thousands of people wanting to come here legally..