[wanabidii] Wole Soyinka: I'll leave the US the day Trump takes office (M&G Africa)

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Wole Soyinka: I'll leave the US the day Trump takes office   Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said that he would be making his "WOLEXIT" the day president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in 2017.

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