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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Source: Guardian
The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency, Soyinka revealed on Tuesday.
Soyinka speculated that his recent comments comparing Trump to the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin might have struck a nerve and contributed to the US consulate’s decision.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/28/wole-soyinka-nobel-us-visa-trump
Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature.
I guess there are some authoritarians Trump does not like being compared.
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