The
US based Nigerian professor, Nobel laureate 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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