{"id":21028,"date":"2018-12-13T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/racist-gandhi-statue-far-from-university-of-ghana\/26"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:10:26","slug":"racist-gandhi-statue-far-from-university-of-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=21028","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Racist&#8217; Gandhi statue far from University of Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Men removing the Gandhi statue\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/racist-gandhi-statue-far-from-university-of-ghana-5c128471bc64f.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Symbol copyright Emmanuel Dzivenu\/JoyNews <\/p>\n<p>A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been far from a school campus in Ghana&#8217;s capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>University of Ghana academics began a petition for its removing shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by means of India&#8217;s former President Pranab Mukherjee.<\/p>\n<p>The petition mentioned Gandhi used to be &#8220;racist&#8221; and African heroes have to be put first.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the row, Ghana&#8217;s executive on the time stated the statue can be relocated.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Africa Live: More in this and different stories<\/p>\n<p>Academics and scholars told the BBC that the statue, initially located at the school&#8217;s leisure quadrangle, were removed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/racist-gandhi-statue-far-from-university-of-ghana-5c1284720a53b.jpg\"> Symbol copyright Emmanuel Dzivenu\/JoyNews Image caption Lecturers and students celebrated in entrance of the newly empty plinth after the statue was once got rid of<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol copyright Emmanuel Dzivenu\/JoyNews A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been far from a school campus in Ghana&#8217;s capital, Accra. University of Ghana academics began a petition for its removing shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by means of India&#8217;s former President Pranab Mukherjee. The petition mentioned Gandhi used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5377,6514,1491,9472,1185],"class_list":["post-21028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-anc-african-national-congress","tag-colonialism","tag-ghana","tag-mahatma-gandhi","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}