Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka of Nigeria claims that Trump's criticism led to the revocation of her U.S. visa.

The 91-year-old author became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

Senegal's DAKAR — Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka announced on Tuesday that his non-resident visa to the US had been denied, and he speculated that it might be because he had recently criticised US President Donald Trump. 

The 91-year-old Nigerian author became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

In an interview with the media on Tuesday, Soyinka stated that he thought it was a result of US immigration laws and had nothing to do with him. He claimed that if he wanted to re-enter, he had to reapply. "

I'm not really interested in returning to the United States, so it's not about me," he stated. However, there is a principle at play. No matter where they are, people should be treated with dignity.

Having previously held a green card and having taught in the United States, Soyinka joked on Tuesday that his card "had an accident" eight years ago and "fell between a pair of scissors.

" In protest of Trump's first inauguration in 2017, he destroyed his green card. Although it doesn't specify what that information was, the letter he received alerting him to the revocation of his visa states that "additional information became available after the visa was issued."