WOLE SOYINKA FULFILLS HIS PROMISE TO TEAR HIS GREEN CARD

BY JEREMIAH CHABO

Nigeria’s Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has confirmed the destruction of his US residency green card.

The award-winning author said on Thursday, December 1 that he has fulfilled his earlier statement to destroy his residency permit and abandon the United States if Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Wole Soyinka speaking with  BBC at  an education
conference at the University of
Johannesburg, South Africa.

“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.

“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, ” As well, he never discouraged anybody 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.