Nobel Laureate, Prof.
Wole Soyinka, says he has forgiven Americans for electing former President
Donald Trump whom he described as a racist, monster and a xenophobe.
Soyinka said this during an interview with Arise Television
on Wednesday. The Nobel Laureate, who had in 2016 torn his
American immigrant visa to shreds over Trump’s victory, said he would not be
renewing the green card since he could visit the United States even without it.
The playwright, who displayed pieces of his torn green card,
stated that America had redeemed itself with the removal of Trump.
Soyinka said, “I feel honoured to be associated
with the democratic forces of the United States for correcting the unbelievable
error that they committed four years ago.”
On the green card issue, he said, “I consider myself back in
that community from which I dissociated myself four years ago and I am very
glad to be back but I am not renewing my green card, it is not necessary. I go
in and out as a visiting alien and that is good enough for me.”
The Nobel Laureate said he was very much concerned with the
US elections in 2016 because the country has a huge Nigerian population, adding
that America’s history would not be complete without blacks.
He said he tried to warn them about the impending danger of a
Trump Presidency but his advice was ignored hence his decision to tear his
green cars to shreds.
Soyinka added, “The complacency was very painful and I said
if you people are so careless as to let this racist, this monster, this
xenophobic aberrant, this disrespect of the female gender, this serial
bankrupt, this man who called your own society a shithole country, if you are
so careless as to let him become the next President, I am moving out.”
He said in a way he was happy about the attack on the Capitol
building by pro-Trump rioters.
