Soyinka to US: keep your visa

THE US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said this week.

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“I want to assure the consulate... that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, a famed playwright and author Fwho won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, told a news conference.

Soyinka previously held permanent residency in the US, though he destroyed his green card after Donald Trump's first election in 2016.

He has remained critical of the US president, who is now serving his second term, and speculated that his recent comments comparing Trump to former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin might have struck a nerve.

Soyinka said earlier this year that the US consulate in Lagos had called him in for an interview to reassess his visa, which he said he would not attend.