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Malawi activists in bid to block Gandhi statue
Over 3,000 people have signed a petition opposing a planned statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre. The "Gandhi Must Fall" group claim not only that the Indian independence hero did nothing for the southern African country - they accuse him of being a racist.
The 麻豆官网首页入口's Alex Ritson has been speaking to Jimmy Kainja from the University of Malawi who backed petition.
(Mahatma Gandhi photographed in London in 1931. Credit: Getty Images)
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