Nigeria's Soyinka bins 'green card' over Trump

Nigerian playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka

What you need to know:

  • Soyinka, one of Africa's most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria's civil war.
  • He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

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