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Wole Soyinka Says He Have Forgiven Americans For Voting ‘Racist, Monster Trump’

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: January 21, 2021
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka said America has redeemed itself by voting against the former President, Donald Trump, whom he described as a racist, monster and a xenophobe.

Wole Soyinka Says He Have Forgiven Americans For Voting 'Racist, Monster Trump' 1

Speaking during an interview with Arise Television on Wednesday, Soyinka said he has forgiven Americans for electing Trump, whose victory made him tore his US immigrant visa to shred in 2016.

On the issue of his torn green card, the Nobel Laureate said he would not be renewing it since he could visit the United States even without the American visa.

“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,” he said.

“I consider myself back in that community from which I dissociated myself four years ago and I am very glad to be back but I am not renewing my green card, it is not necessary. I go in and out as a visiting alien and that is good enough for me.”

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Soyinka 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.

“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.

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The Nobel Laureate said in a way he was happy about the attack on the Capitol building by pro-Trump rioters because 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 over a year 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.”

KanyiDaily had earlier reported that Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, pledging to unite the country and calling on Americans to end the “uncivil war” that has fractured the nation.

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