Nobel prize-winning Author to Leaves US Over Trump’s Victory

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Back to Africa? The article says he will return to Nigeria but my guess is that he will end up somewhere in Europe. At least he is a man of integrity and a man of his word.

'I have had enough of it': Nobel prize-winning author leaves US over Trump's victory

igerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire's campaign promises to get tough on immigration.

"I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do," the 82-year-old told AFP 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, one of Africa's most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria's civil war.