Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he will hold a private funeral on January 20 when United States President-elect, Donald Trump, is inaugurated as President.
Soyinka, who spoke in Lagos on Monday, explained that the funeral is not to mourn with the citizens of the US over their choice of president but to mourn the death of Nigeria’s common sense.
“Our common sense is totally lost. I am embarrassed sometimes that I occupy the same nation space with some people,” he said.
He also said Nigerians did not have the right to query his personal decision to tear his US green card.
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*Chai and this man is very soft spoken and almost shy oh...Well thats my impression when i met him at Charles De Gaulle airport years back....hmmm
I wonder why he is so upset.
Grandpa is getting old.
ReplyDeleteI don't give a flying fuck why he's upset, he should just stop lying abeg! He's too old for that shiit
ReplyDeleteHehehehehe...
DeleteKai! This man is pained. He tore the green card because Nigerians won't allow him to rest. It's a pity. Nkpele old man
DeleteStupid man,making noise at his age...While his daughter @Moremi or whatever stupid Yoruba name she was given keep fucking @Rotimi ameachi,she is now his "corner wife"
ReplyDeleteHow shameless....
@Wole soyinka...kikiki...he never saw it coming that @Trump will be the President...Just like some stupid mofo fake Prophets never saw it coming as well....So they all went with the @Hilary Issh......
@Soyinka...show us your passport that you have torn ooo...
A professor of high "esteem" disgracing himself all over the media....Now.people like me now ridiculing you Sir.
@Galore
You shouldn't have referred to him as 'stupid' though... Our mothers trained us better than that
DeleteGalore,I used to like you,but the tribalism is getting out of hand. Moremi is a Yoruba heroine,don't insult what you don't understand.
DeleteI wonder how some of you address your parents at home. When some of you see your grand father age mates and call them stupid,idiot, then am troubled. It shows how disrespectful most of you re towards your parents. Last time i saw @trinity call Buhari stupid, Fan Emmanuel do same everytime, then now you @Galore. You are stupid as your comment. Foolish nonexistent elements. Learn to express your view without cursing your grand fathers age mate. Ode Akwaibom.
DeleteAre you done?
DeleteAny orgasmic feeling?
Now,wipe it off with tissue
@Galore
End time prostitute galore awoof
DeleteGalore the miserable peasant, you and your father are stupid. How does it feel?
DeleteGalore the lesbian. 14 years is waiting for your broke ass. Even begging for things to carry to your village. Just mouth empty barrel. How dare you abuse this man. Even your broke ass parents cannot stand where this man is
DeleteStupid ke? That's too much. He's an intelligent man and well known
DeleteWhen did green card become a passport? You see madam ITK.
DeleteProffesor? Ok
ReplyDeleteEven if he tore his green card,it can be given back to him on request
Delete“Our common sense is totally lost. I am embarrassed sometimes that I occupy the same nation space with some people,” he said.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahaha
Mr soyinka you are not alone. I have the same thoughts as yours as well.
I share the same thoughts with him too. When people no longer respect their elders,imagine some people here insulting a man old enough to be their grandfather,I feel so disgusted. To think that most of them are looking for and does not even know who their anonymous givers are.
Delete*food*
DeleteWell said Triumphant zion... Listen @Galore, when you stoop so low to insult someone old enough to be your grand father, it tells alot about your upbringing.. shameless anonymous face. Nobody knows tomorrow, so be careful when spitting out vile, hateful comments. You don't even have a clue who this anonymous helpers are... **lips sealed** i pity you. One day your friends will EXPOSE YOU and will put a name and face to your Google ID.
DeleteExactly. Some comments on this Same topic right now has validated his statement. Radarada
DeleteWell, that's what senility does to the human brain, even the smart can't escape it. If it was his personal decision, why did he make the wager in public? Mouth leaking oldie
ReplyDeleteWho else thinks this is getting ridiculous?
ReplyDeleteDon't mind him,he shouldn't have made it public that he will tear his green card,so whatever the public says is what he bargained for
DeletePlease this man should go and rest,
ReplyDeletePeople are thinking of how they'll get stuffs for Christmas and pay school fees next year he's saying annoying things.
In ALL countries in the world even the USA, there are dumb, foolish and annoying people also so what is he saying.
Please something to make somebody happy jare
Nice day BVs
Please this man should go and rest,
ReplyDeletePeople are thinking of how they'll get stuffs for Christmas and pay school fees next year he's saying annoying things.
In ALL countries in the world even the USA, there are dumb, foolish and annoying people also so what is he saying.
Please something to make somebody happy jare
Nice day BVs
Stuff
DeleteThanks Na me talk am ooooo!
DeleteHe should know that those that troll him are majorly his grand kid's age mate, why bother about them?
ReplyDeleteDis economy no reach make person dey upset? Lord pls make away for us.
ReplyDeleteSame way Nigerians don't have the right to query you for ur decision same way you don't have the right to query their decision
ReplyDeleteits true tho....some Nigerians lack common sense...but he generalized which is wrong...
ReplyDeleteThis our present economic status is enough to make a sane man go mad...
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why this old man is so bothered about Nigeria/America! What have you even done for the country you're weeping & doing burial for! Rest sir, stopnranting & rest! What has common sense got to do with the situation in this country?
ReplyDelete... Jesus is my worth!
What has he done for this country? U see what he's talking about? Read, my friend. Read books. Not just gossip blogs. Kai!
DeleteAnon 09:09 Google is your best friend what he has done for nigeria and what have you done for your family not this country, your family first?
Delete"Jesus is your worth", why take the name of God in vain? Jesus cannot be the worth of someone who abuses an elder for his opinion that has harmed no one.
DeleteAnon 13.28, read my comment again. And again. Repeat till u comprehend.
DeleteI just love me some Soyinka anytime, I'm so blinded,he can do no wrong in my eyes. So this is my 'blinded' opinion- "Wole Soyinka is always right"
ReplyDelete👍🏻👍🏻
Delete*stop ranting
ReplyDeleteWhy is baba acting like this na? Did we force him to make his first statement? Next time, he shouldn't make comments in his heat of passion Biko
ReplyDeleteY wont he be?
ReplyDeleteHave u seen the suffering?
He should take several seats... old age plus dementia is setting in..
ReplyDeleteIff e hiss sumtimes embarased as e sayed, he shool go an crate his own contry instade of sayin tings, or endop sayin tings e hot north to aff sayed.
ReplyDeletewhen u have cocaine as hair, free to high anytime..
ReplyDeleteHe wonders y he occupies the same nation space as some pple? GO AN ASK GOD! mtchw!
ReplyDeleteDiz Man should go and rest Biko
ReplyDeleteSoyinka please mind your unterances on the very intelligent Nigerians.prof be nice oooo
ReplyDeleteHis cupper tea o jare.
ReplyDeleteNa old age dey worry am. Baba go and sleep joor
ReplyDeleteBe careful of what you say because you might sleep before him.no one knows who will sleep first these days.
DeleteHe just wants to be controversial in this his age
ReplyDeleteWhat's his own self? Abeg oga go n age with grace no dey make noise
ReplyDeleteNnem don't mind the man. Old age has set in...
DeleteBabe how far na? Long time.
this man should rest abeg
ReplyDeleteLike Donald Trump give a damn!!
ReplyDeleteI respect Prof. Wole Soyinka, but he should do whatever he likes with his life and green card. Nobody really cares.
Americans have since moved on, and those who refused to moved on are doing themselves a great disfavour, because Trump will remain the President of United States.
Old age don set in that's why. Lol!
ReplyDeleteIt's not fun insulting a man old enough to be your father.
DeleteI dont know this man as a controvertial somebody..i wonder y he started now that he is aged.anyway thats his own cup of tea
ReplyDeleteBlabbing again
ReplyDeleteThis man is beginning to sound like Orubebe. Get over it already! Donald Won, Hillary lost! Get over it ooo!
ReplyDeleteHian!
If u r embarrassed occupying the same national space as us then leave the national space for us and go to a national space where you won't be embarrassed. Another new word to my volcabs. National Space.LOL, Me like.
ReplyDelete“Our common sense is totally lost. I am embarrassed sometimes
ReplyDeletethat I occupy the same nation space with some people,” true statement as some of them are in this site
They r the majority on this site and others like this one. Just read the comments. It is sad, really.
DeleteMany of them are here. To think that majority of them are waiting for the likes of prof to put food on their table this Christmas.
DeleteHe smoked a little weed, that's why.
ReplyDeletehe's upset because the leaders these days are just useless
ReplyDeleteFine man
ReplyDeleteIf you want hold public or private burial is non of my biz
ReplyDeleteHmmmm! All for d camera.
ReplyDeleteam alwayz passed wen elders talk without brain. Are u not the one dat said u ll tear ur green card so y get upset becos people reminded u of ur statement
ReplyDeleteEnd time Prof.
ReplyDeleteNa him sabi....
ReplyDeleteI will pass.
ReplyDeleteHe is not shy at all! He's very egotistical
ReplyDeleteOld age is making him talk too much.
ReplyDeleteOld age ni...
ReplyDeleteYes. He's still shy, not looking people directly in the eye though he got angrier in recent times. To me o, this is lazy journalism, why is this making news headlines?
ReplyDeleteIf I type now some trolls will hold their daily meeting under my comment. Prof Soyinka is not the only 80+ lecturing in the US or has green card.
Donald Trump is for a 4 year term IF he is sworn in because a lot of issues are cropping up. Tear the green card, hold a funeral, after 4 years and another President is elected what is Prof gonna do?
Manufacture another card?
I can't seal a beg
Xhlrted P
**deal
DeleteKiss ejima dem for me 😘😘😘😙
Just listen to morons and half-wits spewing rubbish comments. This country truly dead.
ReplyDeleteGet a life nitwit
DeleteAre you the @Moremi or whatever name daughter fucking a married man?..lol
E deyy pain you gaga.😁
@Galore
You get a life nitwit. What's your own with Moremi? Oh I see. She snatched him from you. I see why you are so angry. Haven't you fucked a married man before? We know your story
DeleteLow life Galore
Galore, u r just too daft
DeleteGrandpa pls rest na, all these ur rantings won't change anything na.Ur alredy in Naija from what I can see. There are other important things to channel ur energy on na.
ReplyDeleteSenility don dey set in
ReplyDeleteEeya poor man,old age don dey set in.
ReplyDeleteCant his young wife be watching what this man is saying; before he embarrasses himself even further.
The man is right. It was nobody's business in the first instance but stupid Nigerians made a meal of it. Just like they showed how stupid they are over the 'my wife belongs to the other room' matter. We are a bunch of unserious people.
ReplyDeletegrandpa please goan rest and stop being a nuisance *tschewwwwwwwwww
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