"Ways of the World"
Chapter Twenty-Two: The End of Empire
The Global South on the Global Stage
1914-Present
In this chapter of the book one thing I wanted to comment on, but not go into detail about was actually one of the section titles. The section on page 1090 is title "Explaining African and Asian Independence" the first thing I said to verbalized to myself and my friend Lucianna was, "Did Africans really gain independence? Or is that just what we're all going along with to make other people feel better about how poorly African Americans were treated. Food for thought.
This chapter I decided to focus on no other than Mahatma Gandhi, "the most widely recognized and admired figure in the global struggle against colonial rule was" (1094). I will not go in depth about him either considering the book essentially covered all the basic need to knows. However, I did not know he was married off at 13! Interesting stuff, never before have I heard anything mentioned about him having a wife, girlfriend, or lover of any kind.
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