One of the Lead Campaigners for the #RhodesMustFall movement Athi Nangaso Nkopo has launched a scathing attack on former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi describing the global icon as racist, paedophile and misogynist.
Athi Nangaso, South African, is a member of a new generation of African youth calling for the removal of all colonial and racist monuments in Black African institutions. She was at the center of the movement that saw the successful removal of Cecil Rhodes’ statue on the University of Cape Town campus in South Africa, even as a Rhodes Scholar.
Athi Nanganso is the latest, from outside Ghana to add her voice to the calls for the removal of Gandhi. She made the remarks when host of Radio Univers’ Campus Exclusive Abdul Karim Ibrahim sought her views on the #GandhiMustFall movement in the University of Ghana.
Athi Nangaso also stated that;
‘’ Gandhi’s impact, Gandhi’s thinking, is not something that affects only Ghanaian but something that affects Black people everywhere and Black people and students in US, South America and Europe should care about this’’
‘’He was a paedophile, an out and out misogynist, sexist and possibly abusive to young Indian women. It’s important to begin to structure the world that we want to live in and University students are perfectly placed to do that…..in fact he’s abhorrent in his actions and his thinking is deplorable’’, she added.
A #GandhiMustStand counter-petition has also been filed by other faculty members and students calling on the University management to disregard calls for #GandhiMustFall.
Ibrahim Abdul Karim/Radio Univers 105.7
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