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(28,270 posts) Thu Dec 1, 2016, 01:17 PM Dec 2016

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

‘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/

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I have had enough of it: Nobel prize-winning author leaves US over Trumps victory [View all] workinclasszero Dec 2016 OP

I remember him. HassleCat Dec 2016 #1

He's lucky he can leave now IMO workinclasszero Dec 2016 #2

Not sure about Nigeria HassleCat Dec 2016 #3

Oh I'd take California for sure workinclasszero Dec 2016 #4

NorCal is not much fun HassleCat Dec 2016 #5

Lol. Last time we toured rural Northern California, Hortensis Dec 2016 #9

In Nigeria he was in solitary for 22 months, and later he was sentenced to death in absentia FarCenter Dec 2016 #6

And he would rather return there than stay in Trump's Amerika workinclasszero Dec 2016 #7

He is 82 now. Probably going home to die. FarCenter Dec 2016 #8