Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘reach first’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. Related: Petition calls for Gandhi statue to be removed from Ghana University Related: Cheers and protests as University of Cape Town removes Cecil Rhodes statue Related: Arundhati Roy accuses Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com