- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Campaigners in Malawi won an injunction on Wednesday to temporarily halt work on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the commercial capital as part of a $10 million construction deal with Delhi. They argued in the high court that the statue, part of a deal to build a convention centre in Blantyre, celebrated Gandhi who they accused of using racial slurs in his lifetime. “Being black people ourselves, such remarks have invited a sense of loathing and detestation of Gandhi,” said the “Gandhi Must Fall” group in their application which gave 18 grounds against the construction. Judge Michael Tembo ordered…
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