By Amofokhai Williams
Wole Soyinka, a Professor of Literature and Nobel laureate says Donald Trump’s conviction is a challenge and a call to preparedness and steadfastness.
Trump, former U.S. President who is gunning for re-election in November, was convicted on all 34 counts in the historic hush money trial in New York on Thursday.
Soyinka says he may choose to apply for restoration of his Green Card for a permanent residence in the United States.
In 2016 Soyinka said he destroyed his Green Card following Trump’s victory at the poll.
“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,” he had said in 2016.
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However, reacting to the verdict on Friday, Soyinka says for millions in anguished parts of the world, “certainly for us in vast swathes of the African continent, this is daybreak on a new democratic promise. The warning is clear. sooner or later, the clamour of equity breaks down the stoutest gates on guard across the citadel of impunity.”
“The Trump debacle is a challenge also, a call to preparedness and steadfastness. Installed and putative fascisms – secular, military or theocratic – will extract from this only the wrong lessons, batten down and ‘crack down’ in self-protection.
“It is “Not yet Uhuru”, not anywhere close for humanity in our global village. Nonetheless, a celebration, albeit in a minor key, is justified,” he said.
“P.S. Seeing that this trite, personal gesture attracted such inordinate attention at the time, let me answer the question before it is asked: Yes, I may choose to apply for restoration of my card of Permanent Residence, known as the Green Card. Possibly,” he added.
