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Home Front: Politix
Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka Fulfills Promise To Leave US After Trump Victory
2016-12-01
[Daily Caller] The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature says he has fulfilled a pre-election promise to cut up his green card and leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.

"I have already done it, I have disengaged [from the United States]. I have done what I said I would do," Wole Soyinka, an 82-year-old Nigerian poet and playwright, told Agence France-Presse at an education conference in South Africa on Thursday.

"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," he added.

Soyinka, who recently completed a stint as a scholar in residence at New York University, made his pledge to cut up his green card -- which provides permanent legal residence status -- just days before the Nov. 8 election.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Gotta respect him for living up to his word.

Can't think of any other reason to respect him, but there's that.
Posted by: Barbara   2016-12-01 22:21  

#5  So he went to _South Africa_?
Wikipedia suggests he hasn't been writing much lately.
Posted by: james   2016-12-01 21:28  

#4  "I had a horror of what is to come with Trump"

Say "Hi" to Boko Haram for me.
Posted by: Fluper Click1940   2016-12-01 20:32  

#3  That's a start.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-01 20:30  

#2  Ah yes the Nobel Prize for Literature......is that one of those STEM subjects?


Did he go via Mexico?
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-01 20:26  

#1  I sincerely hope he has "coattails."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-12-01 19:55  

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