Nigeria’s Nobel
laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has reaffirmed his decision to exit the
United States of America following the election of the Republican
candidate, Donald Trump, in the recently concluded presidential
elections in the United States of America.
Soyinka, however, did not disclose when
he intends to quit America but stated that his decision was informed
out of fear for what may likely happen to minority Americans should
Donald Trump decides to live by the sentiments he harboured during his
campaign period.
In his recent article, Soyinka envisaged
Trump’s America as non-conducive for minority migrants and therefore
opted to leave on temperamental grounds.
“The answers to all the foregoing can be
summed up in a familiar expression: a life of environmental sanitation,
or call it – sanity.
“My temperament requires a certain
minimum level of environmental health to function properly. I use the
word ’temperament’ as a historical fact, a personality development that
first manifested itself all the way back to student days, and has
remained consistent all my life,” he said.
According to him, “I was in New York
during the run-up to elections. I watched this face, its body language,
listened to his uncouth, racist language, his imbecillic harangues, the
insults to other peoples, other races, especially the Hispanics,
Africans and Afro-Americans, even citing once – I was told – Nigeria as
an instance of the burdensome occupation of global space.
“I watched and listened, disbelievingly,
since this was America, supposedly now freed to a large extent – as we
like to believe and have a right to expect – from its lamentable history
of racism.
He however said that his major concern was not only with the president-elect but his teaming followers.
“But I saw, not only this would-be
president but – enthusing followers on populist a populist roll at the
expense of minorities,” he said
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