Nobel prize-winning author leaves U.S. over Trump victory
Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka is throwing away his green card.
Click here for reuse options!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.
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robert December 1st, 2016 at 12:25
I can’t blame him If you have another gig Get on the next plane and avoid the horror show