Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has
said he would destroy his green card
if Donald Trump becomes president of
the United States.
Soyinka said this on Wednesday while
giving a speech to students of Oxford
University, England, reports
the Guardian UK.
“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,” said Soyinka, who is
scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African
American Affairs.
The internationally-acclaimed
playwright and poet described Britain’s
decision to exit the European Union as a
“ridiculous decision”.
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 informed the students that
the torch of African literature is being
carried by the younger generation.
“I think we of the older are getting a
little bit tired, and I think our production
gets thinner and thinner. But fortunately,
it doesn’t worry any of us, as far as I
know, because the body of literature
that is coming out [is] varied and
liberated.
“African literature suffered from some
kind of ideological spasm in which the
younger generation was bombarded by a
sense of ideological duty, in other words
it was bombarded with a very simplistic
notion by leftist radical writers, very
reformative revolutionary thinkers, that
all literature is ideological and therefore
writers must ensure that their writing
illustrates progressive ideologies.”
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