Emerging report indicates that Professor Wole Soyinka, is set to go back to the United States of America, USA, less than a year, after he vowed to tear his Green Card, following the election of Donald Trump as the President.
He will be delivering from 14th to 16th November, the Richard D. Cohen Lectures, at Harvard University Centre for African Studies.
“I will go in as an alien, an alien from outer space. I love that designation”, Soyinka said in an interview with Financial Times of London, published on Friday.
The Lectures will be in three parts, with the theme: “BEYOND AESTHETICS: Use, Abuse and Dissonance in African Art Traditions”. The first part, The Acquisitive Eye: Oga, I swear it’s Original Fake, will be delivered on 14th November.
On 15th November, Soyinka will speak on: Heirs to the Procreative Deities – the Yoruba at Large. He ends the talks on Thursday, 16th November, with the third Lecture: From Aso Ebi to NOLLYWOOD.
The venue for the three Lectures is Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Richard Cohen Lectures.
Recall, that before the emergence of Trump, Soyinka had spent much time in the US, where he taught at a number of Universities, and lived in California with his wife, Folake.
“My life has been involved with the diaspora on a very personal and visceral level”, he said of his interaction with prominent African-Americans.
Donald Trump’s election marked an end to his US sojourn. In what has become known among Nigerians as “Wolexit”, he cut up his Green Card.
“To have some redneck ride into power on the steed of racism was for me too much”, he told the Financial Times.
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