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Nigeria's renowned Professor, Wole Soyinka is reportedly going back to America after he made a promise before the 2016 election that he'd leave the country should in case, Donald Trump wins. Soyinka, who tore his green card following the emergence of President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Harvard University. According to TheCable, Soyinka will deliver the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University Centre for African Studies from November 14 to November 16. “I’ll go in as an alien, an alien from outer space. I love that designation,” Soyinka said in an interview with Financial Times of London. The lectures which will be in three parts have the theme: ‘BEYOND AESTHETICS: Use, Abuse and Dissonance in African Art Traditions’. The first part, The Acquisitive Eye: ‘Oga, I swear its Original Fake’ will be delivered on 14 November On 15 November, Soyinka will speak on: ‘Heirs to the Procreative Deities – the Yoruba at Large’. He ends the talks on Thursday 1...

Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday, in Lagos, expressed disgust with emerging debates on re-election by some politicians in the country.

Why is Buhari hiding his state of health, Soyinka queried. Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make his state of health public to Nigerians.

Professor Wole Soyinka has apologized for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari, over his congratulatory message to Gambian President-elect, Adama Barrow.

Nigerian literary icon, Wole Soyinka, has stated that he's not surprised President Muhammadu Buhari is fast losing popularity among Nigerians 18 months into his tenure.

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

Punch Newspaper - Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian nobel laureate, on Saturday, came hard on those asking him to tear his US Green Card as he vowed to do once billionaire businessman, Donald Trump, won the US presidential election.

 A legal luminary, Mr Kayode Ajulo, has cautioned Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, against carrying his threat to destroy his American Green Card in protest of Donald Trump’s victory at the U.S. Presidential election.

A trending report indicates that Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka may be arriving Nigerian soil for good, any moment from now. A photo circulated on the social media by a Nigerian, Prince Adeyinka Success, who said he was traveling out of the U.S but with his Canadian passport, shows the Nobel Laureate already inside a plane arranging his hand luggage's

Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate  has given an indication that he will tear up his Green Card on January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the US. Last week, Soyinka had, in annoyance with the possible victory of the Republican candidate, threatened to destroy the card. Soyinka in an In an interview with The INTERVIEW , the world-acclaimed writer and human rights activist expressed resentment at Trump’s emergence, saying it spelt trouble for humanity. Asked if he still intended to thrash the card, he said, “Come January 20, 2017; watch my WOLEXIT!” By WOLEXIT, he seemed to be referring to his final ‘exit’ from the US, playing on Brexit, the expression referring to Britain’s historical exit from the European Union. Although he said he was not too surprised that Trump won, he noted that his victory had brought an already teetering world closer to the precipice. He said, “The possibility (...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said he would destroy his green card if Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.

This is the famous Playwright , Wole Soyinka in 1966. Twenty years later he became the first African Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Source:African Archives