The 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Professor Wole Soyinka has lived up to his promise to destroy his United States green card should Donald Trump win the presidential election last month.
Soyinka said Thursday, December 1 in South Africa that he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his U.S. residency card and exit the country in the event Trump won the presidential poll.
Said Soyinka: “I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.”
Soyinka, 82, was speaking 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.
Soyinka has been a regular teacher at U.S. universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
“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, arguing that he would not discourage those who still seek for the U.S. green card from applying for same.