The Oppressive Regime of Abacha that led to Nigeria’s Suspension from the Commonwealth.
Few Nigerians, as well as the many people active in Commonwealth, international, and human rights movements, chose to ignore the impact that General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s seventh military head of state, had on them. He thought back to the unfathomable African shame of Idi Amin or the bogeyman Sese Soko Mobutu at one end of…