Abena busia biography of mahatma gandhi

Gandhiji’s life, ideas and work are of crucial importance to all those who want a better life for humankind.

However, the violence broke out; Gandhiji had to suspend the movement as people were not disciplined enough. After two days he sailed for India.

He made unsuccessful attempts to establish his legal practice at Rajkot and Bombay. On 15 August 1947, when India became independent, free from the British rule, Gandhiji fasted and prayed in Calcutta.

On 30th January 1948, Gandhiji, on his way to the prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi, fell to the bullets fired by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.

As observed by Louis Fischer, “Millions in all countries mourned Gandhi’s death as a personal loss.

Busia's work explores themes of identity, culture, and belonging. 

In July 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Abena Busia as Ghana's ambassador to Brazil. In September 1932, Gandhiji faced the complex issue of the British rulers agreeing for the separate electorates for untouchables. Within weeks thousands of men and women were imprisoned, challenging the authority of the colonial rulers.

In March 1931, Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed to solve some constitutional issues, and this ended the Civil Disobedience.

She is a professor of English at Rutgers University in the United States and has taught at various institutions worldwide. 

Abena Busia has published several collections of poetry, including "Testimonies of Exile" and "The Seasons of Beento Blackbird". 

She is also the co-editor of "Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women".

Aspirations of the people for freedom under Gandhi’s leadership were rising high. He broke the law, which had deprived the poor man of his right to make salt .This simple act was immediately followed by a nation-wide defiance of the law. Nearly 23 thousand people were imprisoned that year. Gandhi had sailed to South Africa as a young inexperienced barrister in search of fortune.

He got deeply interested in vegetarianism and study of different religions. In 1893 he took on a one-year contract to do legal work in South Africa.

At the time the British controlled South Africa (though South Africa as such did not exist at that time, and the British did not control all of it by any means. Again in 1908, he mobilsed Indian community in South Africa against the discriminatory law requiring Asians to apply for the registration by burning 2000 official certificates of domicile at a public meeting at Johannesburg and courting jail.

Gandhiji was against the partition and chose to be with the victims of riots in East Bengal and Bihar. These were important issues in his agenda of constructive work – essential programmes to go with Satyagraha.

On March 12 1930, Gandhiji set out with 78 volunteers on historic Salt March from Sabarmati Ashram; Ahmedabad to Dandi, a village on the sea coast .This was an important non violent movement of Indian freedom struggle.

He asked the Indians to boycott foreign cloth and promote hand spun khadi thus creating work for the villagers. Gandhi had been an advocate for a united India where Hindus and Muslims lived together in peace.

On January 13, 1948, at the age of 78, he began a fast with the purpose of stopping the bloodshed.