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Eventually, it appears, the government tired of slapping banning orders on Brutus and, exasperated by his activities, forced him to leave the country, warning that his return would mean prison...
...Brutus went first to London and eventually to the United States, where in 1973 he received tenure at Northwestern as a professor of English. Despite its having "the worst football team in the country." Brutus says he admired Northwestern because of its extensive African Studies program. His most important intellectual achievement during the the past 10 years, he says, was the establishment in 1974 of the African Literature Association, a scholarly society that now includes more than 900 members...
...Brutus is quick to point out, his scholarly accomplishments have often been over-shadowed by his exhaustive political activism. In fact, his political outspokenness against-apartheid may have been partly responsible for his current conflict with the immigration service...
...Brutus's troubles with INS began in the spring 1980. As a citizen of what was then Rhodesia, he held a British passport. When Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in April of that year, the British government revoked his passport and advised him to apply for a Zimbabwean one. The length of time involved in corresponding with Salisbury caused Brutus to apply late for an extension of his visa to stay in the United States. Although he notified INS that he was applying late and was assured that he would be excused, immigration officials later cited Brutus's tardiness as one reason...
Claiming that changes in personnel and the loss of Brutus's file had caused the long delay, the INS denied Brutus's visa request in January 1981 and set a deadline of March 5 for his voluntary departure from the United States. Besides the lateness of his application, the major reason the INS gave for its decision was that Brutus had accepted permanent employment as a tenured professor while his visa only granted him temprorary residence...