Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole
Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge
to throw away his US residency green card and
leave the country if Donald Trump won the
presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to
give up his permanent US residency over a
Trump victory to protest against the Republican
billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on
immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from
the United States). I have done what I said I
would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the
sidelines of an education conference at the
University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump…
I threw away the (green) card, and I have
relocated, and I’m back to where I have always
been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has
been a regular teacher at US universities
including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not
discourage others from applying for a green
card.
“It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one
single moment discourage any Nigerians or
anybody from acquiring a green card… but I
have had enough of it,” he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and
rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months
during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a
term as scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

justicejay:
Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole
Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge
to throw away his US residency green card and
leave the country if Donald Trump won the
presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to
give up his permanent US residency over a
Trump victory to protest against the Republican
billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on
immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from
the United States). I have done what I said I
would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the
sidelines of an education conference at the
University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump…
I threw away the (green) card, and I have
relocated, and I’m back to where I have always
been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has
been a regular teacher at US universities
including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not
discourage others from applying for a green
card.
“It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one
single moment discourage any Nigerians or
anybody from acquiring a green card… but I
have had enough of it,” he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and
rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months
during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a
term as scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole
Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge
to throw away his US residency green card and
leave the country if Donald Trump won the
presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to
give up his permanent US residency over a
Trump victory to protest against the Republican
billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on
immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from
the United States). I have done what I said I
would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the
sidelines of an education conference at the
University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump…
I threw away the (green) card, and I have
relocated, and I’m back to where I have always
been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has
been a regular teacher at US universities
including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not
discourage others from applying for a green
card.
“It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one
single moment discourage any Nigerians or
anybody from acquiring a green card… but I
have had enough of it,” he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and
rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months
during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a
term as scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

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