Uncle Wole Soyinka is simply tired of all the dramas following him. We have told you how he planned to hold a private funeral on January 20, the day Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president,
“to mourn the death of common sense in Nigeria and not to bewail the citizens of the U.S. over their choice of president”. But he is now fighting Nigerians before this ‘burial’
“I am not an entertainer. Why should I entertain you on that? I am a dramatist. When I say I have done something, Ogun (the god of iron) is my guiding spirit on it. Maybe I should be exiting Nigeria and not the U.S. People that one dedicated one’s life of struggle to can be so slavish in mentality to query the right of their champions to freedom of expression.”
If I decide to leave the U.S., it is my personal decision and not that of the millipedes of the Internet. Why do Nigerians weep more than the bereaved? Trump is not really my business. He has been elected. He should do his work. There are born-again humans in all areas, why not in politics? Even the stock exchange reacted to Trump’s election. I also reacted in my own way. There is freedom of expression. We have far too many illiterates in this country.’’
