He was so loathed abroad (in the West) but also so adhored by his own people and many others in Africa, a Hero of Liberation of Africans from the yoke of colonialism.
We either die fighting for the values we believe in and upholding our principles or succumb to external pressure and remain weak so that we will also die eventually in other forms. Both cases are not bright, but nothing equals to upholding and dying for what you believe in.