October 31, 2026

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What does Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka have to say on India, Nigeria and more….

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Wole Soyinka was the first Nigerian author, poet, playwright and essayist to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He has taught in number of universities, including Cornell, Oxford, Harvard and Yale.

Soyinka had been living in America for twenty years before President Trumpย came to power. He was a scholar-in-residence at New York Universityโ€™s Institute of African American Affairs when he tore up his green card.ย He said: โ€œI had a horror of what is to come with Trumpโ€ฆ I threw away the card and I have relocated, and Iโ€™m back to where I have always been.โ€ He returned to Africa.ย 

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