Nigeria's Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka has kept to his word and thrown away his green card, the AFP news agency reports.
Last month the novelist, playwright and police said he would cut up the card, which is a permanent residence permit for the US, if Donald Trump won the American election.
He told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg that now that the Republican candidate had been victorious, he had kept his promise.
“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."
However, Mr Soyinka is not inviting others to follow suit. “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."
According to AFP, he has been reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.
Source: BBC
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Americans have decided the person to lead them and what business has a Nigerian in their matters?
DONALD TRUMP WOULD NOT SHED TEARS.HE WISH ALL FOREIGNERS TO LEAVE THE US SO IF YOU HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD THE BETTER FOR TRUMP BUT BE WARNED THE COUNTRY YOU COME FROM IS NOT STABLE. WHEN BOKO HAREM DECIDE TO OVERUN NIGERIA, WILL YOU BE RUNNING BACK TO THE US? ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
I love Ghanaians and their frank and objective talk. Oya, make you go vote in the same way next week and effect the change you desire and turn your country round!
Destroying it does not mean he is not a permanent resident of the US. He has to officially notify the State Dept. It has to be official. What he has done is equivalent to a lost or defaced green card. All you have to do is apply for a replacement card. We are not naive.
Who cares. You can go back to your boko haram infested country.
Presidency is not designed for particular people. America decided to put him there. Would you have done this if he was brother?
Who cares. You initially thought Hillary would win and turn out the other way round so I know you 're not happy to destroy you green card but you promise. Nothing bad would happened under Trump,'re you God?
That is an act of ungratefulness on his part. Remember that is the country that gave you protection when your own president put a ransom on your head.
he said he will call a news conference of journalist and destroy it publicly. what happened to that
Massa is your own cup of tea.