The fact is that the role, relevance and contribution of the Black
Consciousness philosophy is more warranted now than ever. See,
Black Consciousness does not die. It remains relevant even when it
is apparently dormant. Its approach and method are always readily
available to be used by the oppressed when the need arises to
confront particular and universal challenges posed by institutional
racism and violence. Black Consciousness has turned up the heat
against oppressive rule, exploitation and racism in South Africa
and around the world, as young people and politicians, academics
and campaigners reconfigure a global socioeconomic revolution. Long
linked with universal freedom movements, Black Consciousness has a
particularly profound and proud history in the country that gave
birth to Steve Biko. An intrinsic part of international solidarity
actions, it still captures the imagination of resistance fighters
young and old. Embracing African liberation, the Black Panthers,
Black Power in England, Marxism in the Caribbean and remarkable
links even to Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, it remains at the
centre of struggles for people's power. First published in 2017,
the year of the 40th anniversary of Biko's murder by the apartheid
regime, The Black Consciousness Reader has been revised and updated
as an essential collection of history, interviews and opinions
about the philosophy. A contribution to the world's Black cultural
archive, it examines how the proper acknowledgement of Blackness
brings a greater love, a broader sweep of heroes and a wider
understanding of intellectual and political influences. Although
Biko is a strong figure within this history, the book documents
many other significant Black Consciousness personalities and
actions, as it predominantly focuses a South African eye on its
influence on power, feminism, land, art, music, society and
religion. Keorapetse 'bra Willie' Kgositsile and his son, American
rap prodigy Earl Sweatshirt are inside it. So too Onkgopotse Tiro,
Vuyelwa Mashalaba, a young Nomzamo Winnie Mandela, Bobby Seale,
Assata Shakur, Neville Alexander, Thomas Sankara, Walter Rodney,
Lefifi Tladi, Ready D, Ntsiki Biko, Nina Simone, Barney Pityana,
Zulaikha Patel and many others. It looks at links between K-Pop and
Black Consciousness, militancy in Harlem and the uprisings in
Soweto, Black theology and the bible's red commandments. This
amalgam of facts, ideas, images and moving pictures is written and
compiled by political journalist Baldwin Ndaba, culture writers
Therese Owen and Masego Panyane, columnist and poet Rabbie
Serumula, author and political analyst Janet Smith and multimedia
specialist and church leader Paballo Thekiso.
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