Wole Soyinka and Sojourns: once a card holder is always a card holder.
My response to news Wole fulfilled his promise to ditch his USA green card.
People;
It feels good to have a maternal home. That's how I remain a catholic and why I shunned Kumiyism and Redeemism and the Winners.
I cannot see myself belonging to a church that has no maternal home.
In my culture, we say when a child is maltreated in his home, he runs to his maternal home for safety. As a Catholic, Rome remains my maternal home in case. In Kumiyism, there is no Rome nor Roman nor England, no Mecca either.
In same way a lot of Nigerian Diasporans feel very good holding that green card thing.
Having USA or any other foreign country resident permit gives one some assurance of dual residence. So when Rice becomes N30,000 a bag in Lagos, I run back to U S where I can get it cheaper or free if I chose to go on welfare and live in a city like NYC.
For Wole Soyinka; A record on him indicating he once had a US green card that was not revoked by Obama or Trump whether he has the physical card or not, assures him he has a maternal home outside Nigeria whether he reaped it or burnt it. . It is a good feeling indeed to feel there is always an alternative to someone hing good.
The card; The U S green card, turn or thrown away, it only takes a phone call to get another in a week or less irrespective of who is the president of America.
Mind you the only difficult question needing an answer when you reapply for a copy of your green card is ; what happened to your card?
I lost it.
I reaped it when Hilary lost
I smoked it when I could not buy a cig
My dog ate it
My crazy wife or husband seized it
are all good and acceptable answers.
So we should feel for Wole because as a play write, he too can be a stage actor. For this Green card thing, he acted a major role.
Dan
Seems so. Wole wanted to be like me. I don't take Hennessy and may not take beer. I had hoped Hilary would win the U.S. Election even though I suspected a disappointment was coming. I told some of my friends that I will drink a bottle of Heineken...See more
The great KONGI himself. When you are big you are big and by extension when you are large, you are large. I hope the cynics will find something else to discuss. This man had been there before many who are too young to know some things.
To those who could not do such a thing, there is no problems. We all have our life to lead and it's the way we want it.Ride on Kongi
Olugbenga
--On Dec 1, 2016 5:17 PM, "Ekhator Godfrey" <godgate4luv@gmail.com> wrote:[BREAKING] Trump: I have destroyed my 'green card' – Soyinka
John Abayomi / 2 hours ago
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire's campaign promises to get tough on immigration.
"I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do," the 82-year-old said on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg.
"I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I'm back to where I have always been" — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card.
"It's useful in many ways. I wouldn't for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it," he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa's most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria's civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.
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AFP.
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