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Soyinka rips green card, confirms relocation to Nigeria after Trump win
Africa News ^ | December 1, 2016 | Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban with AFP

Posted on 12/01/2016 10:05:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Nigerian Nobel-literature laureate Wole Soyinka has confirmed that he has relocated to his native Nigeria. The move is in line with his pledge to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the US elections.

The infamous decision to rip apart his green card made the headlines before and after the November 8 polls that Trump won beating Hillary Clinton, his main contender.

A green card simply is a document that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States.

The 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa: “I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.

“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. It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said....

(Excerpt) Read more at africanews.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Poetry; Politics
KEYWORDS: africa; emigrate; nigeria; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Never heard of him. A couple of minutes of research shows him to have received a Nobel Prize in Literature. No doubt it was deserved every bit as much as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
21 posted on 12/01/2016 10:30:48 AM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Nigerian Nobel-literature laureate Wole Soyinka “

Who? Never heard of the third-world creep. Won’t affect my life if he leaves but I bet he adversely affected my life while he was here.


22 posted on 12/01/2016 10:31:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bye


23 posted on 12/01/2016 10:33:22 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More winning!


24 posted on 12/01/2016 10:33:53 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One down, many more to go.


25 posted on 12/01/2016 10:34:41 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At least he can keep a promise, unlike all the Hollyweird libtards.

Other than that, checking the Give-A-Crap meter, I find it is registering a solid ZERO.


26 posted on 12/01/2016 10:36:56 AM PST by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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27 posted on 12/01/2016 10:42:38 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have a good time. You’ll be wishing you were in the USA in no time.


28 posted on 12/01/2016 10:47:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent. I hope this self deportation thing catches on.

5.56mm


29 posted on 12/01/2016 10:51:21 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: MarMema

All I can figure is they watch CNN at the airports. They might need to start going to bars to watch FOX...


30 posted on 12/01/2016 10:54:13 AM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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31 posted on 12/01/2016 11:41:03 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Adios mofo.


32 posted on 12/01/2016 11:55:14 AM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At least he kept his word and left. Now that he’s set the example, let’s hope lots of other libs follow him.


33 posted on 12/01/2016 12:59:52 PM PST by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He will be back or wind up in another majority white Christian country.


34 posted on 12/01/2016 1:00:59 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Good. Going “home” to die after milking this culture. Loser.


35 posted on 12/01/2016 1:12:33 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Billthedrill

I don’t know what that means, and although it matters not where he writes, Death and the King’s horsemen resonates with me yet, and it makes me sad to see him so scorned here.


36 posted on 12/01/2016 2:01:53 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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