The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, effectively barring him from entering the country.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, the 91-year-old writer said the US consulate informed him on October 23 that his visa was being cancelled due to “additional information” that had emerged since it was issued. Soyinka described the notice as “a curious love letter” and joked that it was “one of the most humourous requests” he had ever received.
The move follows Washington’s tightening of immigration rules under President Donald Trump, who has introduced new visa restrictions on several countries, including Nigeria. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 and has taught at Harvard and Yale, previously renounced his U.S. green card in protest after Trump’s 2016 election. He admitted that his recent remarks likening Trump to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin may have influenced the decision, adding wryly, “When I called Donald Trump Idi Amin, I thought I was paying him a compliment.”
Look at some of the people who get given the nobel prize, any category, that alone proves it means nothing. O’bummer got one for something he will do, and we are still waiting for him to do what ever it is he was going to do to earn a so called peace prize.