Africa’s Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka said he has fulfilled his pledge to destroy his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
AFP quoted the Nigerian Professor as confirming that he has already lived up to his promise on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg on Thursday.
“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 Professor who is a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
“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.
[…] than a year after he tore his green card following the emergence of President Donald Trump, Wole Soyinka is going back to […]