Ghana government wants to relocate 'racist' Gandhi statue

October 06, 2016 22:11

Ghana's government said today that it wants to relocate a statue of Mahatma Gandhi off of a university campus after professors launched a petition claiming he was "racist".

A statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by President Pranab Mukherjee as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.

But in September a group of professors launched a petition calling for the removal of the statue because they say Gandhi was "racist" and that the university should put African heroes and heroines "first and foremost."

Ghana's ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement that it has followed the controversy with "deep concern" and that it wants to relocate the statue.

Last year, students in South Africa successfully campaigned for the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902, from the University of Cape Town campus.

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