Prof Wole Soyinka destroys ‘green card’ as vowed

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 pledge
to destroy his residency permit and abandon the
United States if Donald Trump won the
presidential election.
Professor Wole Soyinka has abandoned US
because of Donald Trump and
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from
the United States). I have done what I said I
would do.

At the same time he said he would not
discourage others 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.
A Facebook user recently posted a picture
showing someone that appears to be Prof Wole
Soyinka stowing his bags in the overhead carriage
of a plane on his return to Nigeria just after the
US elections

Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and
rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months
during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a
term as scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
A lawyer had also warned of the implications of
such an action by Soyinka, saying that he could
go to jail for destroying such an important
document.
Abuja based lawyer Kayode Ajulo cautioned Prof.
Wole Soyinka against carrying out his threat to
destroy his American green card in protest of
Donald Trump’s victory at the US presidential
election.