{"id":39854,"date":"2025-10-30T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Nigeria-Wole-Soyinka-tres-satisfait-de-la-revocation-de-son-visa-americain-39854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:45:32","slug":"Nigeria-Wole-Soyinka-tres-satisfait-de-la-revocation-de-son-visa-americain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Nigeria-Wole-Soyinka-tres-satisfait-de-la-revocation-de-son-visa-americain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria : Wole Soyinka \u00ab tr\u00e8s satisfait \u00bb de la r\u00e9vocation de son visa am\u00e9ricain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c0 91 ans, le laur\u00e9at du prix Nobel de litt\u00e9rature en 1986 s\u2019est dit \u00ab tr\u00e8s satisfait \u00bb de cette d\u00e9cision, confirm\u00e9e lors d\u2019une conf\u00e9rence de presse.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka, connu pour ses prises de position courageuses et sans d\u00e9tour, d\u00e9tenait auparavant la r\u00e9sidence permanente aux \u00c9tats-Unis. Il avait toutefois renonc\u00e9 \u00e0 sa carte verte en 2016, durant le premier mandat du pr\u00e9sident Donald Trump, d\u00e9chirant son permis de s\u00e9jour en signe de protestation contre la politique am\u00e9ricaine. \u00ab Ma carte verte est tomb\u00e9e entre les doigts de ciseaux et s\u2019est retrouv\u00e9e en plusieurs morceaux \u00bb, a-t-il ironis\u00e9 mardi.<\/p>\n<p>Le consulat am\u00e9ricain lui a demand\u00e9 de se pr\u00e9senter en personne avec son passeport afin que l\u2019annulation du visa puisse \u00eatre effectu\u00e9e au guichet. L\u2019\u00e9crivain a qualifi\u00e9 cette d\u00e9marche de \u00ab lettre d\u2019amour assez curieuse d\u2019une ambassade \u00bb et a conseill\u00e9 aux organisations souhaitant l\u2019inviter aux \u00c9tats-Unis de \u00ab ne pas perdre leur temps \u00bb, l\u2019ambassade am\u00e9ricaine au Nigeria ayant indiqu\u00e9 qu\u2019elle ne pouvait pas commenter les cas individuels.<\/p>\n<p>Selon une lettre cit\u00e9e par Soyinka et \u00e9manant du d\u00e9partement d\u2019\u00c9tat am\u00e9ricain, la r\u00e9vocation a \u00e9t\u00e9 effectu\u00e9e conform\u00e9ment aux r\u00e8gles autorisant un agent consulaire ou le secr\u00e9taire d\u2019\u00c9tat \u00e0 annuler un visa de non-immigrant \u00e0 tout moment et \u00e0 sa discr\u00e9tion.<\/p>\n<p>Le laur\u00e9at nig\u00e9rian a longtemps critiqu\u00e9 la politique radicale d\u2019immigration de l\u2019administration Trump et a li\u00e9 cette r\u00e9vocation \u00e0 ses prises de position publiques. Il a notamment affirm\u00e9 que sa r\u00e9cente comparaison de Donald Trump avec le dictateur ougandais Idi Amin, qu\u2019il qualifie d\u2019\u00ab Idi Amin en version blanche \u00bb, avait peut-\u00eatre contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la situation. \u00ab Quand j\u2019ai compar\u00e9 Donald Trump \u00e0 Idi Amin, je pensais lui faire un compliment \u00bb, a-t-il d\u00e9clar\u00e9, \u00ab il s\u2019est comport\u00e9 comme un dictateur \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka, qui a enseign\u00e9 r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement dans des universit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines telles que Harvard et Cornell au cours des trois derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies, continue de jouer un r\u00f4le majeur dans les d\u00e9bats sur les droits humains, la gouvernance et la culture en Afrique et dans le monde. Interrog\u00e9 sur la possibilit\u00e9 de retourner aux \u00c9tats-Unis, il a r\u00e9pondu laconiquement : \u00ab Quel \u00e2ge ai-je ? \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>En juillet dernier, le d\u00e9partement d\u2019\u00c9tat avait annonc\u00e9 que les visas non-diplomatiques pour les citoyens du Nigeria, du Cameroun, de l\u2019\u00c9thiopie et du Ghana seraient d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 entr\u00e9e unique et valables seulement trois mois, annulant les anciens visas \u00e0 entr\u00e9es multiples\u00a0de\u00a0cinq\u00a0ans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-68075 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/ws.jpg\" alt=\"Wole Soyinka, laur\u00e9at du prix Nobel de litt\u00e9rature en 1986, s\u2019est dit \u00ab tr\u00e8s satisfait \u00bb de la r\u00e9vocation de son visa am\u00e9ricain\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre \u00e9crivain et critique nig\u00e9rian Wole Soyinka a annonc\u00e9 mardi que son visa am\u00e9ricain avait \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 par le consulat des \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e0 Lagos, l\u2019emp\u00eachant d\u00e9sormais d\u2019entrer dans le pays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000068074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9923],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-homenews","byline-brent"],"bylines":[{"id":9923,"name":"BrenT.","slug":"brent","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":9923,"name":"BrenT.","slug":"brent","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":4000068074,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ws_cp.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000068074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}