Prof. Soyinka later destroyed the Green Card in 2017, after Trump emerged as President out of anger.
After threatening to do it a week before the US presidential elections in 2017, the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, confirmed he has destroyed his green card because Donald Trump won.
In an interview with the Atlantic on Tuesday, Soyinka confirmed he had followed through on his pledge to destroy his green card if Trump wins as he celebrated thanksgiving with his family in the US.
Soyinka, who has returned to living mainly in Nigeria since Abacha died in 1998, said he had made his green card “inoperable”. He did not expand on how he had destroyed it, but said: “I don’t have strong enough fingers to tear up a green card. As long as Trump is in charge, if I absolutely have to visit the United States, I prefer to go in the queue for a regular visa with others. I’m no longer part of the society, not even as a resident.”
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