Mr Wole Soyinka has made it very clear by his very accurate comments about "trump" that he never really understood American society. But he is a foreigner and foreigners can almost never understand the social dynamics of other countries even if they speak the same language.
@@sozb6708 I think what you wrote is silly........can a person who was born and grew up in rural North Carolina understand Yoruba culture and language? Can that person understand Igbo culture...how long will it take for that person to really understand the dynamics of Nigerian society? How long will it take for an American to understand the nuances of the social and ethnic group interactions that make up modern Nigerian society? To say "Most Africans completely understand the US" is ridiculous.. How long will it take one born and reared in another country to understand American society? Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and grew up as a Yoruba. His views and opinions of America are those of a foreigner. Many millions of whites voted for trump because America was created in an orgy of genocidal murder, land theft and slavery followed by centuries of racial and class oppression. Obama's election marked a shift in social forces. Perhaps it indicated a temporary setback for the reactionary racist forces in America. But it did not mark the final defeat of the racist ruling circles in the US! This is what Wole Soyinka did not fully understand. Neither do you seem to understand this point. You also wrote: "There is NOTHING complex about this society." We will disagree here! I know that all societies are complex!!
University of Maiduguri has never been closed for a Year because of insurgency. The Examination was once postponed because of a pressure the University management received from students' parent.
The interviewer doesn't seem to know the difference between citizenship and green card, and which of them Soyinka has. Wole Soyinka did not actually say he "renounced" his residency(green card) status, he clearly said I "negotiated my departure" and I "negotiated, as I said, my engagements" for the events that he probably had been booked for. Cutting up your green card is one of the most silly methods of virtue signalling that I can imagine. There are several means of forfeiting a green card(i.e. permanent United States residency status) that includes: (1.) formal correspondence(in writing) with the U.S. government, (2.) having it expire without renewal, and (3.) willfully exceeding the amount of time allowed to be outside the country for permanent United States residency status. What you do physically with a card/document issued to you is your own business, and has nothing to do with your actual status as far as the U.S. government is concerned. And similarly, burning one's Passport does not make someone a non-citizen, there are formal procedures to end your relationship with a nation state. Saying that someone should be arrested for speech makes it pretty obvious that Soyinka would likely have been worse than authoritarian Nigerian governments he was supposedly against. The devil is in the details, I think people should stop hailing this man as some sort of sociopolitical icon of resistance. He is clearly a leftist, with everything that comes with that ideology.
Donald Trump has not instigated "hate crimes" or the "judicial killing of blacks." Donald Trump has not committed a crime. We do not have any laws against hate speech. Why? Because who would decide what constituted hate speech? What is and what isn't hate speech is completely subjective. Also, when you compare someone to Hitler, you have clearly lost the argument.
Mr Wole Soyinka has made it very clear by his very accurate comments about "trump" that he never really understood American society. But he is a foreigner and foreigners can almost never understand the social dynamics of other countries even if they speak the same language.
@@sozb6708 I think what you wrote is silly........can a person who was born and grew up in rural North Carolina understand Yoruba culture and language? Can that person understand Igbo culture...how long will it take for that person to really understand the dynamics of Nigerian society? How long will it take for an American to understand the nuances of the social and ethnic group interactions that make up modern Nigerian society? To say "Most Africans completely understand the US" is ridiculous..
How long will it take one born and reared in another country to understand American society?
Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and grew up as a Yoruba. His views and opinions of America are those of a foreigner. Many millions of whites voted for trump because America was created in an orgy of genocidal murder, land theft and slavery followed by centuries of racial and class oppression.
Obama's election marked a shift in social forces. Perhaps it indicated a temporary setback for the reactionary racist forces in America. But it did not mark the final defeat of the racist ruling circles in the US! This is what Wole Soyinka did not fully understand. Neither do you seem to understand this point.
You also wrote: "There is NOTHING complex about this society."
We will disagree here! I know that all societies are complex!!
@@sozb6708 Gbogbo aja ni nje imi: eyi to ba je tie benu laraye npe ni digbolugi.
This Elder understands perfectly.
I enormously obliged to the professor
Very clean mind
nice
University of Maiduguri has never been closed for a Year because of insurgency. The Examination was once postponed because of a pressure the University management received from students' parent.
It is acatalectic and irksome to those that have not had the opportunity to get the Usanian Green Card.
Mustapha Lawal Tofadefama your English just destroyed the TH-cam video on my phone ha ha ha lol. Nice one bro.
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😂😂@@sexypast
The interviewer doesn't seem to know the difference between citizenship and green card, and which of them Soyinka has.
Wole Soyinka did not actually say he "renounced" his residency(green card) status, he clearly said I "negotiated my departure" and I "negotiated, as I said, my engagements" for the events that he probably had been booked for. Cutting up your green card is one of the most silly methods of virtue signalling that I can imagine. There are several means of forfeiting a green card(i.e. permanent United States residency status) that includes: (1.) formal correspondence(in writing) with the U.S. government, (2.) having it expire without renewal, and (3.) willfully exceeding the amount of time allowed to be outside the country for permanent United States residency status. What you do physically with a card/document issued to you is your own business, and has nothing to do with your actual status as far as the U.S. government is concerned. And similarly, burning one's Passport does not make someone a non-citizen, there are formal procedures to end your relationship with a nation state.
Saying that someone should be arrested for speech makes it pretty obvious that Soyinka would likely have been worse than authoritarian Nigerian governments he was supposedly against. The devil is in the details, I think people should stop hailing this man as some sort of sociopolitical icon of resistance. He is clearly a leftist, with everything that comes with that ideology.
John Galt What about leftism?
What about leftism in what sense? I don't understand what you're asking.
John Galt Leftism in the sense you had in mind in that context.
But you're not asking me a clear question on leftism that you want answered.
Ok. In the context where you mentioned "leftist", you seem to disapprove of someone being a leftist.
We do not have laws against hate speech in the United States. Our constitution guarantees the right to free expression.
Donald Trump has not instigated "hate crimes" or the "judicial killing of blacks." Donald Trump has not committed a crime. We do not have any laws against hate speech. Why? Because who would decide what constituted hate speech? What is and what isn't hate speech is completely subjective. Also, when you compare someone to Hitler, you have clearly lost the argument.
Including the right to use the n-word to terrorize people of a certain race?
@@thesoundofthesuburbs That comparison is simply accurate. You will find out whwen Putin comes riding down YOUR STREET IN VICTORY! 😬😱😣😕😴
@@thesoundofthesuburbs BS!
I believe the Nigerian constitution also gives rights of free speech.
And not a single person in America cared...
Of course the vast majority of Americans neither know or care who this dude is.
And we don't care if you care or if you do 😴
Yet you took time to respond to me...So you were apparently bothered at least a little bit.
@@melbatoast6403 and you replied to me, so you're still bothered 😴
America is a shithole country
@@akotoolubayi1580 Then why, pray tell, do so many people risk everything (including their lives) just to live here?