Q. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi? Answer:
Nelson Mandela
Notes: Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, was known as Africa’s Gandhi. Like Martin Luther King Jr., Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda, Mandela was deeply influenced by Gandhi’s ‘passive resistance’ and ‘satyagraha’ as effective political tools for use by unarmed victims of a powerful opponent.