I have had enough of it: Nobel prize-winning author leaves US over Trumps victory

[workinclasszero]

‘I have had enough of it’: Nobel prize-winning author leaves US over Trump’s victory
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE 01 DEC 2016 AT 12:04 ET

Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.

“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” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.

The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/i-have-had-enough-of-it-nobel-prize-winning-author-leaves-us-over-trumps-victory/

[HassleCat]

1. I remember him.

Way back in college, I helped the African Student Union arrange an appearance by Soinke. The African students hung on his every word, but most of us had no idea what he was saying. He had a heavy accent, and he was making very obscure literary references.

[workinclasszero]

2. He's lucky he can leave now IMO

I would be right behind him if it were financially possible. Or at least move to a big and vibrant blue state and work for succession and union with Canada maybe.

I'm sure Dump's brownshirt alt-reich will add this guy's books to their burn list.

Coming to a campus near you shortly I bet.

[HassleCat]

3. Not sure about Nigeria

Nigeria has its own problems, but I can see why he would prefer to be there. As for US citizens, we can move to blue states and hope to dodge some of the crap. I feel for those stuck in rural Texas and similar places.

[workinclasszero]

4. Oh I'd take California for sure

It is sooooooo depressing being surrounded by Drumpf supporters in a red state.

Because of my age, I pretty much have no hope that things will get better in my lifetime now.

Only worse, much, much worse.

[HassleCat]

5. NorCal is not much fun

I lived in Trinity County for a while and it harbors many whackos.

[Hortensis]

9. Lol. Last time we toured rural Northern California,

whenever we stopped in small towns there would always be people in "counterculture" styles giving us "corrupt corporatists like you don't belong here" looks. Made me wonder what on earth they imagined they saw. Our own "look" has always been something like Hillary's, especially my hair: Cleaned up and appropriate enough to pass, not exactly a personal statement of ideology.

The "whackos" are vastly outnumbered, but they do have a way of making their presence felt. From my viewpoint, they tended to look like people who never did discover that the "hippie stew" we thought was so "cool" in the 1970s can be vastly improved on.



Oh, it seems appropriate that this gentleman is leaving. Our loss. Just hope his message is taken.

[FarCenter]

6. In Nigeria he was in solitary for 22 months, and later he was sentenced to death in absentia

[workinclasszero]

7. And he would rather return there than stay in Trump's Amerika

Wow.

[FarCenter]

8. He is 82 now. Probably going home to die.