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Nobel Prize-Winning Author Wole Soyinka Throws Away Green Card, Relocates Over Trump Win
The Washington Times ^ | December 1, 2016 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 12/04/2016 8:17:17 PM PST by Steelfish

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Wole Soyinka Throws Away Green Card, Relocates Over Trump Win

By Jessica Chasmar - December 1, 2016

Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday that he fulfilled his promise to throw away his United States green card and relocate if Donald Trump won the presidency.

“I’ve done it,” the Nigerian author told news channel eNCA on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, Reuters reported. “When I was ready, when I’d finished, I negotiated my departure,” he said.

Mr. Soyinka said Africans are worried that Mr. Trump could tarnish the legacy of President Obama, whose father was Kenyan. “We on the African continent could boast that we had a contemporary descendent ruling the United States,” he said. “Suddenly, somebody is making speeches which are meant to reverse those gains.”

Mr. Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at American Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.

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To: Steelfish
"Mr. Soyinka said Africans are worried that Mr. Trump could tarnish the legacy of President Obama"

Does he imply that Donald Trump might be the kind of man who would put the blame on his predecessor for all his failings as he tried to learn how to govern by trial-and-error? What kind of president would do such a thing?
21 posted on 12/04/2016 8:32:43 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Steelfish

Who cares.


22 posted on 12/04/2016 8:32:59 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Steelfish

Win!


23 posted on 12/04/2016 8:33:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Steelfish

Oh Wait!

Don’t go.

Things are going to get much better...well, that is, if you want to work for a living.


24 posted on 12/04/2016 8:33:32 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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"Nobel Prize-Winning Author Wole Soyinka..."


25 posted on 12/04/2016 8:34:02 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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Yea! One down, a bagillion to go.


26 posted on 12/04/2016 8:34:08 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: Steelfish

Come back in 2028 when Pence is done.


27 posted on 12/04/2016 8:34:23 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: Steelfish

Another win!!


28 posted on 12/04/2016 8:34:25 PM PST by thinden
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To: headstamp 2; ExTexasRedhead
“We on the African continent could boast that we had a contemporary descendant ruling the United States,” he said.“

Unfortunately, this worthless turd spoke the truth saying Obola “ruled” the United States. Unfortunately the US was not set up to have a “ruler.” Maybe you and your JB friends need rulers over there in Africa, but that are an aberration here.

29 posted on 12/04/2016 8:35:31 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Steelfish

Excellent!


30 posted on 12/04/2016 8:37:43 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Steelfish

No more Route 66 in a lime green Dodge Super Bee Pal.

No more Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

No more three roll tocos with guacamole from Roberto’s on Via de la Valle in San Diago.

No more Chicago Transit Authority or Chicago Blues Festival.

No more Red Nectar Ale.

No more West Virginia speak easys.

No more Eisenhower Pass.

No more indiscrete music studios with the best players.

No more fresh Great Lakes perch fried with just a little flour and salt.

No more stupid pet tricks.

No more Monterey.

No more flying the hull of a Hobie ‘16 1977 White Knight Edition.

Hit the f’n road jack.


31 posted on 12/04/2016 8:38:36 PM PST by Eddie01
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32 posted on 12/04/2016 8:46:09 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Mind the door-ass interface.


33 posted on 12/04/2016 8:46:11 PM PST by Company Man (Best election evah!)
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34 posted on 12/04/2016 8:49:24 PM PST by libh8er
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35 posted on 12/04/2016 8:55:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TADSLOS

Or Madonna promising sexual favors in return for votes and then reneging.


36 posted on 12/04/2016 8:56:32 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Steelfish

Too bad more sore losers don’t emulate him.


37 posted on 12/04/2016 8:59:44 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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If we lost Wole Soyinka , then we lost the war. Wait, who is Wole Soyinka? I thought the story said “Willy Wonka”...... Never mind.


38 posted on 12/04/2016 9:08:24 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: AlaskaErik

I’m not terribly familiar with Soyinka’s writing, but as a general rule, the Nobel Literature prize tends to be awarded on politically correct criteria.

It helps to be from a Third World country.

On the other hand, every now and again the Nobel committee screws up and gives the award to a writer of genuine merit. Of course, it still helps to be from a Third World country.

For example, would V.S. Naipaul have gotten the prize if he wasn’t Indian/Trinidadian/British?


39 posted on 12/04/2016 9:09:42 PM PST by Nothingburger
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Oh no! I knew that was going to happen if Trump got elected. How will we cope? What shall we do?........./s


40 posted on 12/04/2016 9:13:24 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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