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Prof Wole Soyinka returns to America to deliver lectures
\nNov 5, 2017: (NAN) Professor Wole Soyinka is going back to\u00a0 Donald Trump\u2019s America, less than a year after he tore his Green Card following the election of Donald Trump as the president.<\/p>\n
He will be delivering from 14-16\u00a0 November\u00a0 the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University Centre for African Studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll go in as an alien, an alien from outer space. I love that designation,\u201d Soyinka said in an interview with Financial Times of London published on Friday.<\/p>\n
The lectures will be in three parts, under the theme:\u00a0BEYOND AESTHETICS: Use, Abuse and\u00a0Dissonance\u00a0in African Art Traditions<\/p>\n
The first part, The Acquisitive Eye:\u00a0\u201cOga, I swear it\u2019s Original Fake\u201dwill be delivered on 14 November.<\/p>\n
On 15 November, Soyinka will speak on :\u00a0Heirs to the Procreative Deities \u2013 the Yoruba at Large. He ends the talks on\u00a0Thursday 16 November with the third lecture:\u00a0From\u00a0Aso Ebi\u00a0to N****YWOOD.<\/p>\n
The venue for the three lectures is\u00a0\u00a0Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.\u00a0Richard Cohen lectures.<\/p>\n
Before the emergence of Trump, Soyinka had\u00a0 spent much time in the US, where he taught at a number of universities and lived in California with his wife, Folake.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy life has been involved with the diaspora on a very personal and visceral level,\u201d he said of his interaction with prominent African-Americans.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s election marked an end to his US sojourn. In what has become known among Nigerians as \u201cWolexit\u201d, he cut up his Green Card.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have some redneck ride into power on the steed of racism was for me too much,\u201d he told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n
In a statement in 2016, he detailed why he chose to drop the Green Card:<\/p>\n
\u201dI was in New York during the run-up to elections. I watched this face, its body language, listened to his uncouth, racist language, his imbecilic harangues, the insults to other peoples, other races, especially the Hispanics, Africans and Afro-Americans, even citing once \u2013 I was told \u2013 Nigeria as an instance of the burdensome occupation of global space. I watched and listened, disbelievingly, since this was America, supposedly now freed to a large extent \u2013 as we like to believe and have a right to expect \u2013 from its lamentable history of racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
News Agency of Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prof Wole Soyinka returns to America to deliver lectures Nov 5, 2017: (NAN) Professor Wole Soyinka is going back to\u00a0 Donald Trump\u2019s America, less than a year after he tore his Green Card following the election of Donald Trump as the president. He will be delivering from 14-16\u00a0 November\u00a0 the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n