Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revokes his visa

FILE PHOTO: Wole Soyinka, Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Essayist, speaks at the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit in London, Britain, May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Belinda Jiao/File Photo

LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday the United States had revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year and he was told to re-apply if he wished to try again to visit the U.S.

The 91-year-old writer said in 2016 that he had torn up his U.S. green card and renounced his American residency in protest at the first election of President Donald Trump.