Nigerian Nobel Prize winner and author Wole Soyinka said that his non-resident visa to enter the US has been rejected likely because he had criticised President Donald Trump.

Associated Press quoted Soyinka as saying that he believed it had little to do with him and was instead a product of the United States’ immigration policies.

“It’s not about me, I’m not really interested in going back to the United States. But a principle is involved. Human beings deserve to be treated decently wherever they are," said the Nigerian author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 and became the first African to do so.

“I want to assure the consulate … that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa," he said.

According to AP, Soyinka, who has taught in the US and previously held a green

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