REMEMBERING BIKO: RECLAIMING ONTOLOGICAL BLACKNESS AND THE POLITICS OF THE BLACK BODY
The commemoration of Steve Biko demands more than a mere historicist recount; it necessitates an epistemic and ontological excavation into the very foundation of Black subjectivity under Colonialism and Apartheid. Biko’s praxis and philosophy must be apprehended as a radical ontopolitical intervention aimed at reclaiming Black bodies and articulating an ontological Blackness that resists coloniality, […]
STEVE BIKO REMEMBERED BY HIS FOLLOWERS IN SONG, DANCE AND REVOLUTIONARY SPEECHES IN A CEREMONY AT HIS PRISON CELL
Throngs of Black Consciousness adherents – young and old – some carrying babies, gathered at the historic prison cell where Steve Bantu Biko was mercilessly murdered by the apartheid regime 48 years ago. Kgoshi Mampuru II Correctional Facility, formerly the notorious Pretoria Central Prison where anti-apartheid leaders were hanged at the gallows inside the premises, […]
BC PARTIES BURY THE HATCHET IN HONOUR OF STEVE BIKO
The leadership of the Black Consciousness Movement used the 48th anniversary of the death of its founder, Steve Biko in Pretoria on Friday to call for the unity of the organizations. The call was made by AZAPO’s chairman, Mr Amukelani Ngobeni and Black Consciousness Movement United (BCMU) president, Dr Hlulani Mabasa. They were speaking at […]
BIKO: A LIGHT IN A TIME OF DARKNESS
Nothing describes and summarises Steve Biko’s brief but sufficient life on earth as does the title of the legendary Alice Walker’s 2007 book, We are the Ones We have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. While he died at the tender age of 30, he would have turned 79 this coming December. […]