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University of Ghana to Remove Campus Statue of ‘Racist’ Gandhi

University of Ghana to Remove Campus Statue of ‘Racist’ Gandhi

Erasing history.

The effort to remove the statue of Gandhi began several weeks ago and now it’s happening.

Time reports:

Ghana Will Remove ‘Racist’ Gandhi Statue From Its Oldest University

Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked protests over the leader’s allegedly racist attitudes.

The statue, which was unveiled by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during his visit to Ghana in June, was meant to symbolize friendship between the two countries, according to Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But professors and students at the University of Ghana called the statue “a slap in the face” because of Gandhi’s “racist identity.” They started an online petition calling for the statue’s removal.

The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Africa as evidence that he advocated for the superiority of Indians over black Africans. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory term kaffir to refer to native Africans and criticized the lack of statues of African heroes and heroines on campus.

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