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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Gandhi and India , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 01, Ian rated it it was amazing Shelves: I have to admit, this was a very good book. I used to read a lot of historical fiction when I was younger, but all of a sudden I started reading it again. Ghandi's life was very interesting, and today he's considered a legend.

It was definitely very interesting reading about his life, and things that he did that helped give Independence to India, such as the famous Salt March to protest the British tax on salt in India, and how he transformed from an average Indian lawyer living in South Africa I have to admit, this was a very good book. It was definitely very interesting reading about his life, and things that he did that helped give Independence to India, such as the famous Salt March to protest the British tax on salt in India, and how he transformed from an average Indian lawyer living in South Africa into a household name and a martyr for Indian Independence and a world-recgonized figure.

I've probaly never read a more interesting biography before. Jason rated it it was ok Mar 10, Gandhi and Nevinson would meet later , in London in After his return to India, Gandhi was in contact with W. DuBois, the pioneer of the Pan-African movement, who was to spend his last days in Ghana. In March , the month in which Gandhi was to be arrested, Crisis carried a five-page long appreciative article on Gandhi. Crisis went on to observe: Like the principle of non-co-operation, it kills without striking its adversary.

As in South Africa, Gandhi would be imprisoned again in India. The non-cooperation movement against British rule in India was initiated by Gandhi in Political activities in India were a factor that contributed to the quickening of political events in certain parts of Africa. A notable West African personality, slightly elder to Gandhi, but whose thought is believed to have affinities with Gandhi , was Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford An influential writer, Casely-Hayford worked for African political rights and was one of the main founders of the National Congress of British West Africa.

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His efforts for establishing a university in Ghana then Gold Coast resulted in the founding of Achimota College in Apart from the inclusive nature of their nationalism, there was yet another bridge between Gandhi and other African leaders like Casely-Hayford. This lay in their emphasis on education; like Gandhi, Casely-Hayford had also been impressed by the work of Booker T. In the course of the non-cooperation movement in India, Gandhi would be arrested in For his part, Gandhi was prepared even in his non-cooperation to provide the English with an honourable exit.

What he sought was equality among the white, brown and black races and, if this could not be achieved under the English, he was, of course, prepared to end that connection. He defined his objective in a letter to his friend and associate C.

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Then the English must be made to retire from India. But I am not prepared to reject the possibility of an honourable equality. The connection must end on the clearest possible proof that the English have hopelessly failed to realize the first principle of religion, namely, brotherhood of man. He declared in March in response to reports of racial restrictions in Glasgow: A year later, the international aspect of the struggle came still further into focus with the invitation to Gandhi to attend the Brussels International Congress Against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, or the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities, to be held in February The Brussels conference gave birth to the League Against Imperialism.

Nehru was made one of the honorary presidents of the general council of the league and a member of the executive committee. Among the three elected secretaries was the African trade unionist Lamine Senghor. Houenou had become directly involved in Dahomey now Benin and Senegal politics, and had even been arrested in Togo. Articulate sections of francophone West Africa had already been taking a keen interest in Gandhi. That Gandhi should have sent a message to the Brussels Congress is significant for he was not especially enamoured by international conferences and it was not often that he would associate himself with them, his emphasis being on strengthening the struggle at hand wherever he was based.

The message was also important as the Brussels Congress represented, at this stage, the coalescing of, or an alliance between, groups seeking, in the first instance, freedom from colonial rule and those focusing on change in the social and economic structure. Participants at the Brussels Congress had a wide canvas before them. The problem, as Gandhi noted later in the year , was the idea of inequality itself: In , Gandhi resumed civil disobedience in India. While the Indian National Congress was still banned and Gandhi, along with most Congress leaders, was in prison, the British government headed by Ramsay MacDonald called a round-table conference to discuss Indian constitutional reform in London from November 12, The conference did not result in any specific solution; ultimately the hosts themselves realised that they would have to release Congress leaders and go through the motions of attempting to keep the Congress in the picture.

In the second half of January , Gandhi was released from prison. Talks between Gandhi, on behalf of the Indian National Congress, and the British viceroy led to a kind of provisional truce in March In England, Winston Churchill reacted unfavourably to the prospect of political advance in India and to the spectacle of the viceroy appearing to seek a political settlement with an arch-rebel like Gandhi.

A notable African voice that rebuked Churchill at this point was Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, who went on to become the president of Nigeria, then in the US. After the dissolution of the Round Table Conference on India and the freedom of Ghandi sic from jail, this great author of The World Crisis became so emotionally fervent in his irreconciliable attitude that he denounced the MacDonald government for attempting to grant India political autonomy.

Such an attitude naturally leads to grave reactions which Churchill himself knows. He went further to suggest severe punishment for Gandhi in order to bring him to his senses. In my humble opinion, I think this is poor statesmanship on his part.

Gandhi and West Africa: Exploring the Affinities

At the end of August , Gandhi sailed from India for Europe to attend the second round-table conference called by the British government to discuss the constitutional development of India. With Gandhi already committed to Indian independence, and to full Egyptian independence, his commitment to all of Africa could be no less. While in London, Gandhi was asked on October 31, African activists and students also had contact with Gandhi during his visit to England in She was the daughter of the famous Casely-Hayford mentioned before and the African educationist Adelaide Casely-Hayford , then settled in Sierra Leone.

The precocious Gladys had spent her childhood in West Africa and Britain, where she had attended schools at various intervals from as early as Her illustrious father had died in August Gladys joined Ruskin College in October and the meeting with Gandhi was barely a fortnight later. She evidently informed her mother, then in West Africa, of her encounter. Little is apparently known about the conversation between Gladys and Gandhi.

This was in accordance with advice that Gandhi was known to give to Africans. A week after this visit to Oxford where he had encountered Gladys, Gandhi would declare, in answer to the question put to him in London, to which reference was made above, his objection to the colonial subjection of the Gold Coast. Though Gladys had a hard life, taking sundry jobs in the struggle to make ends meet, she made a reputation as the cultural leader of her time in Sierra Leone.

Yet I love that boy equally as I do the other brothers. Colonial repression in India was to mount presently. On returning to India in the last week of December , Gandhi was again arrested in the first week of January Not impressed by such restrictive measures, some African leaders did not hesitate to speak their mind. A vital formulation, this conceptually extended to the wider world the non-violent non-cooperation he had earlier initiated in India.

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A most singular resort to the strategy mentioned in this spring article would soon occur. Obviously, such African leaders who invoked or hearkened to Gandhi would adapt his ideas and methods creatively to suit their own national traditions and circumstances. In , four years after Gandhi declared his support for a free Gold Coast, his friend and Andrews spent time in Achimota College. Before Andrews planned his visit he seems to have written to Gandhi to seek out his views.

West Africa was now added to this list. A crisis was brewing in the then Gold Coast related particularly to the cultivation and marketing of cocoa, which directly affected the African farmer. It presently came to a head. European monopolists controlled the cocoa export trade with West Africa, buying cheap and selling at high prices abroad and were believed to have formed a combine in An agrarian strike has been declared.

Thousands of cocoa farmers, incensed by the attempt on the part of the British monopoly trading companies and merchants to obtain their cocoa below its real value, are holding up their crops. Motor transport workers and dockers are refusing to handle the goods of foreign firms, while a nationwide boycott of British commodities has been proclaimed. Clashes have occurred between the people and the military… the trouble began during the latter part of October, but the authorities are trying to prevent the news from getting abroad.

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According to authentic reports reaching London, thousands of native cocoa producers of the Gold Coast and Ashanti have been holding meetings at Suhum, Nsawan, Kibi, Dodowah and other cocoa-producing districts, for the purpose of discussing ways and means of defending themselves against imperialist oppression…The strike, coupled with the boycott, has drawn the entire country into action.

The urban population, most of whom are related to the farmers, are also refusing to buy foreign goods. For the first time in the history of Africa, three million people have taken up the challenge against vested interest and have applied the economic strike weapon. While in prison on account of the movement that he had launched on August , asking the British to Quit India, Gandhi wrote to the British Indian government on July 15, It further enhanced his moral stature.

Amery, the secretary of state for India, to release Gandhi and Nehru from prison. Azikiwe, having observed Indian affairs since the early thirties when he charged Churchill with showing poor statesmanship in his attitude towards Gandhi and India, recalled the events of Padmore, the Trinidad-born activist, and Nkrumah, the future leader of Ghana, were the leading organisers.

Clearly, there would be more than one interpretation of any idea or method that was adopted and it would also have to be appropriate to prevailing traditions and circumstances. For example, Wallace Johnson argued in response to Coker that Gandhi was not altogether against the use of force, but used a different kind of force.

Another Nigerian admirer of Gandhi, Obafemi Awolowo, was a delegate. Faro who represented the Negro Association. Among the resolutions at the Congress was one by Padmore expressing solidarity with the Indian struggle.