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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him.
Mr. Soyinka, while speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island 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."
He continued, "I am embarrassed to occupy the same space as some imbeciles and morons," adding that the exit from Nigeria can be "internal" or "external".
Mr. Soyinka also threatened to move the residency of his foundation, the Wole Soyinka Foundation, out of Nigeria and dared anybody to criticize his decision.
"If the board agrees," he said, "I will move the residency of my foundation out of the country," he said.
Mr. Soyinka, while speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island 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."
He continued, "I am embarrassed to occupy the same space as some imbeciles and morons," adding that the exit from Nigeria can be "internal" or "external".
Mr. Soyinka also threatened to move the residency of his foundation, the Wole Soyinka Foundation, out of Nigeria and dared anybody to criticize his decision.
"If the board agrees," he said, "I will move the residency of my foundation out of the country," he said.
