Visit Mahatma Ghandhi Monument in Jinja -Source of the Nile.

See the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi; a startling discovery near the Nile’s source is a temple to Gandhi. Following his desires, his ashes were split up and dispersed across several of the world’s major rivers, including Uganda’s Nile, following his death in 1948. Given by the Indian government, this bronze bust honors the deed.

On Thursday at the Nile’s source in Jinja, Uganda, vice-president Hamid Ansari paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi from a section of his mortal remains submerged in 1948.Ansari praised the Father of the Nation as among the closest ties India has to Africa. Arriving in Uganda on February 21, Ansari planted a seedling after presenting flowers at the Mahatma bust in Jinja, a center of the Indian population in Uganda.

The Indian government erected the bust, which then Prime Minister IK Gujral opened in 1997. It sits in calm climates surrounded in lush vegetation and in a reflective stance. The plaque below says: “Universal apostle of peace and non-violence whose ashes were immersed in the river Nile in 1948.”

Later on, Ansari—who is joined by wife Salma, Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Vijay Sampla, four MPs — Kanimozhi, Ranvijay Singh Judev, Ranee Narah and PK Biju — visited the Nile River source. Part of his two-country trip to Africa, Ansari is in Uganda. During his initial leg of travel, he went to Rwanda.

Seeking to increase India’s engagement with Africa, this is the first bilateral visit India has paid Uganda since 1997. Gandhi’s ideas remained one of the key themes of Ansari’s subsequent talks, including the one at the University of Rwanda, where he underlined the common connection of anti-colonialism campaign and fight against prejudice.

“India is very indebted to Africa for helping us to inspire our fight for national freedom. Mahatma Gandhi created and first used the ideas of non-violence and nonviolent resistance on this continent, which helped India to acquire its independence.