soyinka, Wole
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abacha's legacy is mixed. His administration oversaw </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States_Monitoring_Group" title="Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ECOMOG</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> military successes in West Africa that raised Nigeria's military profile.</span><sup id="cite_ref-TheIndependent_29-0" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-TheIndependent-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In February 2014, during Nigeria's centenary celebrations, the Nigerian government honoured Abacha for his contributions to the country’s development</span><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> though </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Laureate" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Nobel Laureate</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka" title="Wole Soyinka" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Wole Soyinka</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> who was similarly honored by the administration of President </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan" title="Goodluck Jonathan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Goodluck Jonathan</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> criticized the honor bestowed on Abacha by rejecting the honor, noting it as the 'canonization of terror'.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Punch-NG_31-0" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-Punch-NG-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> Soyinka further noted that by honouring Abacha, the government of Goodluck Jonathan had gathered "a century’s accumulated degeneracy in one preeminent symbol, then place[d] it on a podium for the nation to admire, emulate and even – worship".</span><sup id="cite_ref-Punch-NG_31-1" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-Punch-NG-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"> Abacha was largely unpopular in southern Nigeria because of his administration's human rights abuses, execution of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro_Wiwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ken Saro Wiwa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ken Saro Wiwa</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">, resulting in Nigeria attaining a pariah status internationally</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYT-Commonwealth_32-0" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-NYT-Commonwealth-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Falola-Heaton_33-0" class="reference" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha#cite_note-Falola-Heaton-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>