Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, 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.”
Source:thecable
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