All posts tagged "Wole Soyinka"

A Nobel Prize winner who compared President Donald Trump to a dictator and had his U.S. Visa revoked, referred to receiving a “rather curious love letter from the embassy," mocked the president, and said he must have "struck a nerve."

Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, 91, was speaking to reporters in Lagos, Nigeria, when he mentioned that the U.S. consulate asked him to bring his visa and passport so it could be voided, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

"I like people who have a sense of humour, and this is one of the most humorous sentences or requests I’ve had in all my life,” Soyinka said. ...