{"id":273608,"date":"2016-12-02T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273608"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:41:16","slug":"wole-soyinka-throws-away-green-card-after-trump-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273608","title":{"rendered":"Wole Soyinka throws away green card after Trump win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel-prize winning author Wole Soyinka has thrown away his green card in protest of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka, who hails from Nigeria, became the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1986. He has resided in the US for more than 20 years and is a regular teacher at prestigious universities such as Harvard, Cornell and Yale.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the US election, he vowed to throw away his green card \u2013 a permanent residence permit for the United States \u2013 and \u201cstart packing\u201d should Mr Trump win and now that has happened\u00a0he is sticking to his pledge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGoodEveningGhanaOfficial%2Fvideos%2F1277717415594301%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have already done it, I have disengaged [from the United States]. I have done what I said I would do,\u201d the 82-year-old told the AFP news agency at a conference in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a horror of what is to come with Trump\u2026 I threw away the card and I have relocated, and I\u2019m back to where I have always been,\u201d reportedly meaning Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he would not discourage anyone from applying for a green card but, for him, Mr Trump\u2019s presidency signalled it was the right moment to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s useful in many ways. I wouldn\u2019t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card but I have had enough of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel-prize winning author Wole Soyinka has thrown away his green card in protest of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. Soyinka, who hails from Nigeria, became the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1986. He has resided in the US for more than 20 years and is a regular teacher at prestigious universities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}