Thursday, 3 November 2016

WHY I WILL CUT MY GREEN CARD SAY'S PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA



  The noble laureate, Playwright and poet, professor Wole soyinka has said earlier that if the Replublican flag-bearer, Donald trump is elected president of  the united states of America next week, he will cut his green card and leave the country.
Wole soyinka also said that "if in the unlikely event he wins, that the first thing he'll do is to order that all green-card holders must reapply and return to the united states"

Well, I'm not waiting for this, "said Soyinka, who is a scholar-in-residence at New York University Institute of African American affairs.

Professor Wole Soyinka also said that "the moment his victory is announced,i will cut my green card and start parking up"

The nigerain playwrite and poet, in a seminar with the students of Oxford university's Ertegun house, urged young people to stand up agaist oppressionand laid it into Brexit, "saying it was a rediculous decision ", and part of an international rise in what he called "ultranationalism".
According to him

"what is happening in Europe shouldn't surprise any of us . it has happened before", he said " we were here when Enoch Powell was leading his thugs out to drive the Blacks from America, it’s a constant fight to try to get a nation to recognize its own noble persuasions, its own persuasions of the loftiness of human possibility. It’s for young people like you to say no to them whenever that happens.”

Wole Soyinka the Africa' first Nobel laureate in literature, winning 1986 for writing that "in in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”.

He also told his students that the African literature today was “robust, without a question, especially with the younger generation… I think we of the older ones are getting a little bit tired, and I think our production gets thinner and thinner day by day.

But fortunately, it doesn’t worry any of us, as far as I know, because the body of literature that is coming out is varied and liberated,” he said.

“African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers,

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