The longer Gandhi lived in Africa, the more he shed the racism of his boyhood and youth. In his book Satyagraha in South Africa, published in the 1920s, Gandhi offered a spirited defence of African religion. In disputing the claims of European missionaries, Gandhi wrote that Africans had “a perfect grasp of the distinction between truth and falsehood”. Ten years later, a delegation of South African Indians called on Gandhi. Reading reports of the arrests of protesters in South Africa, Gandhi wrote an article for his newspaper entitled “White Man’s Burden”.

Source: The Telegraph December 22, 2018 03:36 UTC