Professor Wole Soyinka has vowed to destroy his American Green Card if Donald Trump is elected US president.
Trump, a republican candidate is head-to-head with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate and the Nobel laureate has vowed to leave the US if Trump wins.
According to Guardian UK, Soyinka said this on Wednesday, November 2 while giving a speech to students of Oxford University in England.
Professor Wole Soyinka vowed to leave US if Trump wins
He said: “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.
“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up.”
He also described Britain’s decision to leave the European Union as a ridiculous move.
He said: “What is happening in Europe shouldn’t surprise any of us … It has happened before. We were here when Enoch Powell was leading his thugs out to drive blacks from here.
“It’s a constant fight to try to get a nation to recognise its own noble persuasions, its own persuasions of the loftiness of human possibility. It’s for young people like you to say no to them whenever that happens.”
Soyinka also spoke about African literature and noted that the older generation was getting tired.
Hmmm... The man himself
ReplyDeleteI support you. Come back home and teach us the rudiments of Literature.
ReplyDelete