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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

See ya’. Wouldn’t want to be ya’.


61 posted on 12/05/2016 1:40:17 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Steelfish

Yawn. Another affirmative-action ‘award winner’ heard from. Boring.


62 posted on 12/05/2016 2:02:40 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?

He’ll miss the USA and be back in no time.


63 posted on 12/05/2016 2:16:11 AM PST by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: Steelfish

Good for him.


64 posted on 12/05/2016 2:19:13 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Veggie Todd
Get tough on employers and put the illegals back in the shadows and they’ll self-deport. Won’t need a wall.


65 posted on 12/05/2016 2:25:29 AM PST by Stentor
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To: vette6387

That was basically my tag line for 6 months prior to the election in 2008.

“Obama: Carter’s only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.”


66 posted on 12/05/2016 2:37:11 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: headstamp 2
“..... the African continent boasted we had a contemporary descendent ruling the US.
Suddenly, somebody is making speeches which are meant to reverse those gains."

Gotta give it to the guy....he catches on real quick.

67 posted on 12/05/2016 3:21:10 AM PST by Liz
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To: Steelfish

The dividends just keep getting payed out from this election!


68 posted on 12/05/2016 3:25:40 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is.")
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To: vette6387
Mr. Trump could tarnish the legacy of President Obama

How can you tarnish a turd?

69 posted on 12/05/2016 4:11:44 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Steelfish

Joy.


70 posted on 12/05/2016 4:14:43 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Steelfish

More winning


71 posted on 12/05/2016 4:16:02 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Steelfish
"Mr. Soyinka said Africans are worried that Mr. Trump could tarnish the legacy of President Obama, whose father was Kenyan."

One Nigerian Nobel "PC" Prize winner for literature going back to Africa is a start...

...But if a Kenyan Nobel "PC" Prize winner for peace followed back to Africa that would surely be a real PRIZE FOR AMERICA.

May the door not hit either Soyinka or Obama in the ass on their way out!

72 posted on 12/05/2016 4:35:44 AM PST by drpix
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To: Steelfish

The end of corruption is death knell to Africans


73 posted on 12/05/2016 4:39:10 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: vette6387

This Nigerian references Obama African father. His sperm donor was African. That doesn’t qualify as “father” in civilized culture’s book. Same with Kaepernick. It’s amazing that both Obama and Kaepernick condemn white people (who raised them and did everything for them) and identify with the sperm donors who didn’t stick around.


74 posted on 12/05/2016 4:51:27 AM PST by AC Beach Patrol
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To: Steelfish

And stay out $$hole!!!


75 posted on 12/05/2016 4:52:11 AM PST by ontap
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To: Nothingburger

If you trash America it usually nails down that Nobel Prize.

Pray America woke


76 posted on 12/05/2016 4:58:01 AM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: Steelfish

So long, and take Babs with you.


77 posted on 12/05/2016 5:00:45 AM PST by GingisK
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To: guido911

he’ll be back.


78 posted on 12/05/2016 5:47:49 AM PST by bigspender
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To: Steelfish

I just commmented : he’ll be back - if I may, add - maybe these “leavers” should have their visas or passports revoked.


79 posted on 12/05/2016 5:47:49 AM PST by bigspender
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To: adorno
I think Trump has bigger fish to fry. Besides, how can Obama’s legacy get more tarnished than what Obama did?

Exactly. The Left isn't afraid of Trump because of what he wants to do. The Left is afraid of Trump because he'll expose them for the worthless frauds that they've been for the past eight (or maybe more like 20-odd??) years.

80 posted on 12/05/2016 6:18:56 AM PST by wbill
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