Africa's beloved Nobel laureate on African literature, Bob Dylan and why he is leaving America if Trump wins

Africa's beloved Nobel Laureate just shared his thoughts on Donald Trump, African literature, Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan and we cannot keep calm.

Wole Soyinka told his students that if Trump is elected president of the United States next week, he will leave the country.

“If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that. The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up.”

Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognized as a man “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”, Soyinka also spoke about the future of African literature.

"African literature today is robust, without a question, especially with the younger generation… I think we of the older are getting a little bit tired, and I think our production gets thinner and thinner. But fortunately, it doesn’t worry any of us, as far as I know, because the body of literature that is coming out [is] varied and liberated,”

Published on The Guardian, Soyinka adds: “African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers, that all literature is ideological and therefore writers must ensure that their writing illustrates progressive ideologies.”

"This,inhibited a number of very talented writers, crippled their sense of liberal creativity, forced them to try and narrow themselves into a very tight prism of viewing phenomena, humour, relationships, even politics.” But “fortunately this next generation has been freeing itself and the result is really marvellous, very varied – the women in particular”.

On Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize win, although Soyinka was reluctant to answer, but he said: “Since I’ve written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy”.

We agree, Baba deserve a Grammy.

Soyinka is not the first author to speak against Trump, Salman Rushdieshamed him some few days back and in May, over 400 writers including Stephen King, Colm Tóibín, Geraldine Brooks and Lydia Davis signed a petition opposing "unequivocally, the candidacy of Donald J Trump for the presidency of the United States”.

Compliment this with Africa's beloved Nobel Laureate on rebranding Nigeria and ending corruption and 10 times the Nobel Laureate was goddamn hilarious on Twitter

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