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(22 Sep 2016) Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
The petition, delivered on Thursday to the University of Ghana's governing council, takes issue with what the professors call Gandhi's "racist identity" and controversial references to Africans in his writings.
Launched online on September 12, the petition has garnered more than 1,250 signatures.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue at the centre of the campus during a visit to Ghana in June.
Gandhi, a lawyer, travelled to South Africa in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Africans as savages.
"The fact that we erected the statue means we're not clear on Indian history and how it relates to African people," said Obadele Kambon, one of the petition's organizers. "How are students supposed to look up to Gandhi, a man who said we are only one degree removed from animals?"
A university spokesperson said she wasn't aware of the University Council having yet received the petition.
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Excerpt from the Dr. Kambon's keynote speech Political Prisoners and the Criminal injustice system at the Black August Event in Washington DC
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Out at the castle Lounge in OSU Ghana West Africa celebrating the return of many African Americans in other African diaspora Who return or repatriated back to Africa,,,, and look who's up in the building,,, two of my great mentors who have repatriated back to Africa, Ghana in particular,,,,,Momma IMAHKUS of One Africa Restaurant tourism healing resort and Dr Obadele Kambon of the University of Ghana. It truly was a fun filled, blessed night.
I want to give a shout out to sister Afia for being one of the ones who sponsor and hosted this celebration and also shout out to the castle Lounge in OSU Ghana West Africa for allowing us to use their venue to host the celebration.
I love this. We should always continue to stick together and support one another in this repatriation process and progress, returned/returning home to Africa, the land of our ancestors the land of our birth rights.
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I was honoured and blessed to meet Dr. Obadele Kambon of the University of Ghana at the castle Lounge in OSU Ghana West Africa,,,, and he broke it down about the visas to go to one African country to the next, that this mess was brought by the Europeans with all that colonization crap,,, and an MGT sister of mine came along and said,,, we black people are people without borders.
So I just basically paraphrase what they said in my own words. And I agree with both of them 100%.
Dr. Maulana of Ministry of the Future (MOF) hosts the Right of Return Townhall Meeting in Accra, Ghana at the Paloma Hotel. Join us Nov. 7, 2020 at 11:00am GMT, 7:00am EST. Guest speakers, Sista Yaa of Sankofa Repatriation Assistance Program, Daddy Bosco, President of Rastafari Council of Ghana, Dr, Obadele Kambon, and Juliet Ryan
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I was honoured to be in the presence of Dr. Kambon Senior, ( which is the father of Dr. Obadele Kambon )and Momma IMAHKUS of One Africa and also Dr Afia out of Washington, which are all Spiritual Giants.
Please excuse the sound, we were at the Ancestral Wall in Ningo Prampram Ghana West Africa, which was having an event today so you barely can hear what was being said,,, but I still had to post this video.
