Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to
the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him.
Speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos
Island, Mr. Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, said he
was embarrassed to share a country with some "imbeciles and morons."
He said, "I should not be exiting the United States but Nigeria because the
people on behalf of whom one has struggled all one’s life can be so slavish
in mentality as to start querying the right of their champion to free
speech."
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