Gandhi called Africans 'savages'

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clutchcargo wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:46 am Who knew he was racist..

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ghan ... sm-2018-12
In the below passage taken from the article I read it as him saying that the Indians in South Africa were being treated as savages
or like the natives of South Africa. =@

Do I fail English comprehension?


Historians recently revealed that Gandhi had made comments referring to African natives as “savages” or “kaffirs,” a term that refers to dark skinned people and roughly means the same as “negro.”

South African historians Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed in 2015 noted that Gandhi wrote in a 1893 letter to the parliament of the British colony of Natal that “general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa.”


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Another quote from the article:

Gandhi also said in a 1896 speech, according to broadcaster Jad Adams’ 2011 book “Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India” cited by Reuters: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir.”

“And whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy his wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
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According to the article, seems to me Gandhi was trying to establish the Indian populations relative position in the pecking order at the time and considered themselves superior to what he referred to as the low life African savages..

That being the case, one has to wonder:

What was India's goal in gifting a statue of Gandhi to Ghana's university in 2016?

Was it a symbol against British colonial oppression against the local people? or

India's quest to expand their status and influence around the world by glibly painting Gandhi as a leader/champion of oppressed peoples around the world?

Even though he considered Africans inferior? hmm.. :chin:
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