Nothing here will cause us to change our decision. We want the flicking statue off our university campus period and full stop. Don't try to humiliate or hurt us more than he has already done
Nothing here will cause us to change our decision. We want the flicking statue off our university campus period and full stop. Don't try to humiliate or hurt us more than he has already done
WHOSE MONEY IS HE SPENDING?> 7 years ago
Nonsese---what about MENSAH SARBAH STATUTE? OKONMFO ANOKYE STATUTE? NKRUMAH STATUTE???
Nonsese---what about MENSAH SARBAH STATUTE? OKONMFO ANOKYE STATUTE? NKRUMAH STATUTE???
$aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago
THE FOOL WAS SMPATHIZED BY THE BRITS BECOS HE SECRETLY HATED BLACKS ESP AFRICANS. DID GHANDHI PARTICIPATE IN ANY EVENTS TO LIBERATE BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE LIVED OR ELSEWHERE FOR THAT MATTER? THIS MAN WAS A SODOMIZER ... read full comment
THE FOOL WAS SMPATHIZED BY THE BRITS BECOS HE SECRETLY HATED BLACKS ESP AFRICANS. DID GHANDHI PARTICIPATE IN ANY EVENTS TO LIBERATE BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE LIVED OR ELSEWHERE FOR THAT MATTER? THIS MAN WAS A SODOMIZER AND A CLOSET RACIST AND AS MUCH AS I RESPECT HIS FORTITUDE FOR WANTING EMANCIPATION FOR HIS COUNTRY. I STILL CONTEND THAT HE WAS HE RELIED ON HIS HATE FOR BLACKS TO SEEK FREEDOM FOR HIS PPL. A CLEAR DEPICTION OF THE CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA N THE BIRTHPLACE OF NAZISM.,
godbless 7 years ago
well written. i am sure racist taggers will sit up and read and listen and get their facts strait.
well written. i am sure racist taggers will sit up and read and listen and get their facts strait.
Nii Teiko 7 years ago
This is a must read piece for the Geek-Squad - Prof Kwarteng, Prof Lungu, Andy K, Odikro Akyea Mensah... to inform their 'lazy' black 'asses'. This is history in motion. Let them read and debate the 42-point bulletin raise he ... read full comment
This is a must read piece for the Geek-Squad - Prof Kwarteng, Prof Lungu, Andy K, Odikro Akyea Mensah... to inform their 'lazy' black 'asses'. This is history in motion. Let them read and debate the 42-point bulletin raise herein by Anil Raniya,a seeming Authority on Gandhi, Nkrumah and African history. It will be in the interest of these self proclaim historians (the Geek-Squad) to do a little research work on EDWARD AKUFFO ADDO, Sir Ofori Atta, Danquah, Paa Grant, Obetsebi Lamptey and Arko Agyei( the five unsung heroes among the BIG SIX) to know that the struggle for independence started way way back before Arko Agyei paid the air ticket to ship Nkrumah, who was then plagued by abject poverty and was feeding on the windfall from a Mission House in the USA to sustain his life, to come home to Ghana to help the struggle for independence. What is also important to note here is that, apart from Nkrumah( may his soul rest in peace) the Nzema Kotoko native, it took only Akyems and Gas, with the material support of the naturally tallented, skillful and industrious Asante Kookoase dwellers, to initiate the struggle for independence. None of the ancesters of these criminals looting left right center, and calling the shots today: I mean the veranda boys;the cassava grating washmen from Togo, the Kookoase farm laborers by day and watchmen by night, the Fantse Kenkey and fish chopping chumps from 'Comedy Central', did virtually nothing to help the struggle for independence. God bless Sargeant Adjetey, Corporal Atippoe and Coporal Odartey for sacrificing their lives in a struggle which would pave way for the recommendation of self- government for the Gold Coast, and subsequently, led to the attainment of political independence for the country on March 6, 1957. Btw, the Geek-Squad, the so called Nkrumahist are being recommended to read this well research work on Gandhi. He is not as black as these Jenks are trying to paint him.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
Anil Nauriya,
None of what we are reading amounts to a hell of beans!
The position of the petition from The University of Ghana, Legon, is, Gandhi was a racist given his own written and aural records. Therefore, that stat ... read full comment
Anil Nauriya,
None of what we are reading amounts to a hell of beans!
The position of the petition from The University of Ghana, Legon, is, Gandhi was a racist given his own written and aural records. Therefore, that statue does not belong on those grounds.
Now, you are not attempting to make the case that because some leaders borrowed the idea of non-violence from Gandhi, Gandhi therefore could never have been a racist, are you?
YOU SAY AND QUOTE:
"...While in London, Gandhi was asked on October 31, 1931: 'For some years Britain would continue certain subject territories like Gold Coast. Would Mr Gandhi object?', to which Gandhi was reported to have replied, "...I would certainly object”.
QUESTION: What exactly do you imagine Gandhi was objecting?
Lastly, you quote Professor Botwe-Asamoah, (2) thus: ".... [20] [21] Visiting Africa in 1952, the African-American Bayard Rustin, who had been much influenced by Gandhi’s methods, found the continent “afire”, with “every imaginable form of resistance being used to break 300 years of … European domination”.
QUESTION: Do you imagine "every imaginable form of resistance" implied methods other than Gandhi's?
Come back and explain, Anil Nauriya!
Francis kwarteng 7 years ago
Prof Lungu,
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians contributed to the British ... read full comment
Prof Lungu,
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians contributed to the British slaughter of nearly four thousand Zulus.
Not even Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah whom he quoted mentioned the fact that Gandhi was a racist and that he lied about his role in the subjugation of Black South Africans.
The scholarship is in progress.
And then there are those who cite from his paper "Indian Opinion," to make their case in support of Gandhi but pretend there were/are tons of contemporary papers that contradicted many of the things he had to say about the present controversy. I have all these other sources.
The scholarship is in progress.
Furthermore, as is usually the case, this deeply flawed article failed to look at tons of other sources some of which are in my possession and in so many publications.
I will respond to some of these glaring omissions and what they had to say about the racist Gandhi. Even his paper "Indian Opinion" has a lot of negatives on him to indict.
American scholars are already digging into this just as Indian scholars Arundhati Roy (and other writers from T.K. Mahadevan, Suredra Bhana, Goolem Vahed, Maureen Swan, Isabel Hofmeyr, Patrick French and so many influential scholars, writers, historians and researchers are doing).
Yours is merely a parochial treatment of the subject. But then again your not adequately informed on African history as your selective quotes do not have the support of the totality of African and world history including such as the history of the "Protest History."
Gandhi's was but an instantaneous node in a long history. I will make all these clear in the future. For now your article fails woefully to prove why Gandhi was a racist and why so many historical sources contradict and undermine him.
Thanks.
$aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago
BOMB THIS SHIT
BOMB THIS SHIT
francis kwarteng 7 years ago
Dear Anil,
Thanks for the piece.
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians cont ... read full comment
Dear Anil,
Thanks for the piece.
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians contributed to the British slaughter of nearly four thousand Zulus.
Not even Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah whom he quoted mentioned the fact that Gandhi was a racist and that he lied about his role in the subjugation of Black South Africans.
The scholarship is in progress.
And then there are those who cite from his paper "Indian Opinion," to make their case in support of Gandhi but pretend there were/are tons of contemporary papers that contradicted many of the things he had to say about the present controversy. I have all these other sources.
The scholarship is in progress.
Furthermore, as is usually the case, this deeply flawed article failed to look at tons of other sources some of which are in my possession and in so many publications.
I will respond to some of these glaring omissions and what they had to say about the racist Gandhi. Even his paper "Indian Opinion" has a lot of negatives on him to indict.
American scholars are already digging into this just as Indian scholars Arundhati Roy (and other writers from T.K. Mahadevan, Suredra Bhana, Goolem Vahed, Maureen Swan, Ashwin Desai, Isabel Hofmeyr, Patrick French and so many influential scholars, writers, historians and researchers from around the world are doing).
Yours is merely a parochial treatment of the subject. But then again your not adequately informed on African history as your selective quotes do not have the support of the totality of African and world history including such as the history of the "Protest Movement."
Not even Leo Tolstoy or Henry David Thoreau and several others who developed the concept of non-violent resistance before Gandhi was mentioned.
Gandhi's was but an instantaneous node in a long history. I will make all these clear in the future. For now your article fails woefully to prove why Gandhi was not a racist, why so many historical sources contradict and undermine him, and why he tried to lie about some of the major horrible things he (and South African Indians) did against black South Africans.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 7 years ago
Dear Anil Nauriya,
I even forgot to mention Cluade Markovits and his excellent scholarly work "The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma" which powerfully deconstructs Gandhi's autobiography "The Story ... read full comment
Dear Anil Nauriya,
I even forgot to mention Cluade Markovits and his excellent scholarly work "The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma" which powerfully deconstructs Gandhi's autobiography "The Story of My Experiments" and "Satyagrapha in South Africa," both of which historians, researchers and scholars uncritically accept as authoritative.
I will have more to say about this particular work and more of such in the future.
As for your convenient selective quotes they lack the context of African history, resistance movements, and global history.
Good day!
francis kwarteng 7 years ago
Like the problem with your convenient selective quotes, here is what the scholar Claude Markovits got to say about Gandhi:
"The iconic image of Gandhi is of a man of God steeped in austerity, sexually renunciate, neditatin ... read full comment
Like the problem with your convenient selective quotes, here is what the scholar Claude Markovits got to say about Gandhi:
"The iconic image of Gandhi is of a man of God steeped in austerity, sexually renunciate, neditating in his ashram, who the assassin's bullet providentially transformed into a martyr...All the evidence available, however, points to the real Gandhi as being very different...The contrast between the icon and the blood-and-flesh individual is the result of selective memory."
We shall have more to say about this and more in the future.
Nothing here will cause us to change our decision. We want the flicking statue off our university campus period and full stop. Don't try to humiliate or hurt us more than he has already done
Nonsese---what about MENSAH SARBAH STATUTE? OKONMFO ANOKYE STATUTE? NKRUMAH STATUTE???
THE FOOL WAS SMPATHIZED BY THE BRITS BECOS HE SECRETLY HATED BLACKS ESP AFRICANS. DID GHANDHI PARTICIPATE IN ANY EVENTS TO LIBERATE BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE LIVED OR ELSEWHERE FOR THAT MATTER? THIS MAN WAS A SODOMIZER ...
read full comment
well written. i am sure racist taggers will sit up and read and listen and get their facts strait.
This is a must read piece for the Geek-Squad - Prof Kwarteng, Prof Lungu, Andy K, Odikro Akyea Mensah... to inform their 'lazy' black 'asses'. This is history in motion. Let them read and debate the 42-point bulletin raise he ...
read full comment
Anil Nauriya,
None of what we are reading amounts to a hell of beans!
The position of the petition from The University of Ghana, Legon, is, Gandhi was a racist given his own written and aural records. Therefore, that stat ...
read full comment
Prof Lungu,
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians contributed to the British ...
read full comment
BOMB THIS SHIT
Dear Anil,
Thanks for the piece.
I am aware of all these sources and almost what they all entail.
As a matter of fact, none of the men he quoted knew Gandhi was a racist and that he and his South African Indians cont ...
read full comment
Dear Anil Nauriya,
I even forgot to mention Cluade Markovits and his excellent scholarly work "The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma" which powerfully deconstructs Gandhi's autobiography "The Story ...
read full comment
Like the problem with your convenient selective quotes, here is what the scholar Claude Markovits got to say about Gandhi:
"The iconic image of Gandhi is of a man of God steeped in austerity, sexually renunciate, neditatin ...
read full comment