Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole
Soyinka, says he has forgiven Americans for electing former President Donald
Trump whom he described as a “racist” and a “xenophobe”.
Soyinka said this during an
interview with Arise Television on Wednesday.
The Nobel Laureate, who had in
2016 torn his American immigrant visa to shreds for voting Trump, said he would
not be renewing the green card since he usually visits the United States even
without it.
The playwright, who displayed
pieces of his torn green card, stated that America had redeemed itself with the
removal of Trump
Soyinka said, “I feel honoured to
be associated with the democratic forces of the United States for correcting
the unbelievable error that they committed four years ago.”
The Nobel Laureate said he was
very much concerned with the US elections in 2016 because the country has a
huge Nigerian population, adding that America’s history would not be complete
without blacks.
He said he tried to warn them
about the impending danger of a Trump Presidency but his advice was ignored
hence his decision to tear his green cars to shreds.
Soyinka added, “The complacency
was very painful and I said if you people are so careless as to let this
racist, this monster, this xenophobic aberrant, this disrespect of the female
gender, this serial bankrupt, this man who called your own society a shithole
country, if you are so careless as to let him become the next President, I am
moving out.”
He said in a way, he was happy
about the attack on the Capitol building by pro-Trump rioters. The playwright
said he wanted Americans to understand how fragile democracy is.
“So, you can imagine what I have
felt over the last few weeks, the siege on the Capitol. In a way it was rather
heart-warming for the Americans themselves to feel that what they have been
fighting for is not really a given in their society and they had to confront it
in a brutal unbelievable way and they came out of it in flying colours.
“It is not over not by any means,
I don’t say that for a single moment but it has been a lesson for us in this
continent and we should be grateful that it did happen. I am sorry of course
about the loss of life, I regret the disruption of normal life but now we are
placed on the same playing level, that we are all fighting for the same virtue
in human conduct, the same system we all believe in that you cannot take it for
granted, not anymore and for us here in Nigeria, it has been, I hope, it was
been a heart-warming occasion.”
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