Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says the US consulate in Lagos has cancelled his visa.
“I’m very content with the revocation,” he said at a news conference, calling the letter he received (seen by AFP) “a rather curious love letter from an embassy.”
Soyinka, who famously tore up his US green card after Donald Trump’s first election, suspects the decision may be tied to his recent remarks comparing Trump to Uganda’s Idi Amin.
He revealed that the consulate had earlier invited him for a visa reassessment interview, which he declined to attend.
The letter cited rules giving officials power “to revoke a nonimmigrant visa at any time.”
Laughing, Soyinka told organisers “not to waste their time” trying to invite him to the US, adding, “I have no visa. I am banned.”
The embassy in Abuja said it could not comment due to privacy laws.
