Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author Wole Soyinka says his US visa has been revoked

Wole Soyinka during an interview at freedom park in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2021 (Sunday Alamba/AP)

Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has said his non-resident visa to enter the US has been rejected, adding that he believes it may be because he recently criticised President Donald Trump.

The Nigerian author, 91, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1986, becoming the first African to do so.