Government will move the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the University of Ghana campus to ensure its safety, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. This comes a day after Citi News reported the statue...
Government will relocate the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the University of Ghana campus to ensure its safety, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. This comes a day after Citi News reported the...
The erection of Indian iconic freedom fighter and thinker, Mahatma Gandhi’s statue on the campus of University Ghana (UG) was encumbered with a controversy. For example, a former Director of the...
Authorities of the University of Ghana are living in fear of a possible theft of the statue of Indian freedom fighter barely three days after his signature spectacle was stolen by some unidentified...
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his...
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his...
Mahatma Gandhi wasn’t racist, communal or casteist, says his granddaughter Ela Gandhi. The defence may seem startling, given that few associate him with those terms. But it comes in response to...
By Larweh Therson-Cofie Should a statue of an important person or a hero be the subject of a row in a country – in a way that makes pulling down of the object a necessity? The answer is yes or no....
As most of the world ignores or hypocritically celebrates the 147th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, some of us will quietly acknowledge...
Some students of the University of Ghana have added their voice to the growing controversy which stems from the erection and unveiling of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. A section of the students...
There is controversy among the lecturers of the University of Ghana, Legon over the erection and unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the campus. While a section of them is agitating that the...
By Kwarteng, Francis “India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” (Nelson Mandela). “We believe as much in purity of race as we think...
“Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live” (Haile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia). “Gandhi must be forgiven these prejudices in...
“India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” (Nelson Mandela). “We believe as much in purity of race as we think they do…We believe...
“A former Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Ghandi,...
“As Hitler did to bring Germany together, we should also do it here. Hitler was a smart guy, but he went a bit too far for wanting to conquer the world” (Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s President)....
By Kwarteng Francis “It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best” Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High...
The Chairman of the Kwabena Nketia Center for Africana Studies, Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku, has backed calls for the pulling down of the statue of Indian icon, Mahatma Gandhi, on the University of Ghana...
Acting Indian High Commissioner to Ghana Pradeep Kumar Gupta says he is working with University of Ghana authorities to resolve a controversy about a statue of Mahatma Gandi on the university's...
Ghana’s former High Commissioner to India, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has described as unnecessary demands for the demolition of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the University of Ghana. Some senior...
