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'Racist' Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus
Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first’



The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans. 
 



 







  A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered Indian independence leader and thinker was racist.
The statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.
But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines “first and foremost”.

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The petition states “it is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eurasian super power”, and quotes passages written by Gandhi which say Indians are “infinitely superior” to black Africans.
More than 1,000 people signed the petition, which claimed that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Africans when he lived in South Africa as a young man, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of India’s caste system, an ancient social hierarchy that still defines the status in that country of hundreds of millions of people.
Ghana’s foreign ministry said it had followed the controversy with “deep concern” and wanted to relocate the statue.
“The government would therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy.” it said. “While acknowledging that, human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve.”

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Statues on university campuses have recently prompted bitter arguments in Africa as students wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and history of racism on the continent. Last year students in South Africa successfully campaigned for the removal, from the University of Cape Town campus, of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902.
Gandhi, who lived in South Africa for 21 years, has long been a more controversial figure, both in his homeland and elsewhere, than many admirers around the world are aware. A hero for his role in the movement that won independence for India from Britain, Gandhi’s vision of non-violent protest inspired rebels and revolutionaries around the world. His thinking was a key influence on leaders of the African National Congress and others engaged in the struggle against apartheid, and his tolerance for all faiths in his homeland led to his assassination by a Hindu fanatic in 1948. But his more conservative views, and early apparent racism, still anger some.







Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (centre), also known as Mahatma (Great soul) speaking during a meeting of the All-India Congress in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1942. Photograph: AFP/Getty
Opponents of the statue in Ghana quoted several of Gandhi’s early writings in which he referred to black South Africans as “kaffirs” – a highly offensive racist slur – and complained that the South African government wanted to “drag down” Indians to the same level as people he called “half-heathen natives”.

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One Gandhi quote was: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
A statue of Gandhi in the centre of Johannesburg not far from the office where he worked as a lawyer, triggered a similar row in 2003.
Gandhi has also been frequently criticised in his homeland. In 2014 the novelist Arundhati Roy accused him of perpetuating a discriminatory caste system.
Prof Mridula Mukherjee, an expert in modern Indian history at Jawaharlal University, in Delhi, said at the time that Roy’s criticism was misplaced

Let have authentic Black  Heroes  celebrated in statues in Africa ... Toussaint Louverture ,  Cuffy, Nat Turner and people like Robert Mugabe

where are they going to relocate the Ghandi statue ::confused::

why wud Ghanaians put up a statue of a forrin dignitary  who had nutten at all to do with  Gnana history..made no contribution to Ghana at all ::confused::

what that means is that the Ghana elites are comprador to Indian power..bought out.

nig nogs selling themselves out again..setting up the african people to worship their enemy not their own

he helped free afrika

no!  he never did! 

MLK went to see him and left disappointed..paid no attention to his philosophy and advice

Any person of colour revered by white people    either in life or after they die are usually enemies of black people ' Examples are Gandhi , Martin Luther King ,Booker T Washington . Mohamed Ali was an exception.
They demonised  Macomb X but tolerated MLK  ... Demonised Subash  Chandra Bose but tolerated Gandhi

that article is apologist for Ghandi..with so much like that quoted nonsense..his early apparent racism.

nonsense!  Ghandi was openly racist and he never changed for he continued to support the caste system to the end.

what is the diff between his anti black racism and the caste system ::confused:: 

the victims of the caste system in India are also Black.  that is why they have been made to sweep the sh!t!

fools will take Ghandi propaganda seriously.  the real Ghandi was for Independent but elitist India and for nothing else. 

read Roy seriously man.  and she is Indian!

I dont consider MLK an enemy of his people.  deh did not kill him because he was our enemy but because he was theirs.  if he wasn't he wud have lived