THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIBERATION — STEVE BIKO AND THE UNFINISHED GRAMMAR OF FREEDOM
“The blacks are required to prove themselves as people.”— Steve Biko, I Write What I Like Annually, the 12th of September compels South Africa to commemorate the brutal martyrdom of Steve Bantu Biko within the precincts of a Pretoria prison cell in 1977. Yet, to reduce Biko Day to a mere elegy of sorrow or an […]
LOVE AND VIOLENCE: DR MBUYISENI NDLOZI’S AUDACIOUS BID TO BE THE BIKO-FANON OF A LOST GENERATION
I did not attend the launch. I watched it on TV. But this book matters. Not because it is perfect. Because it is necessary. Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s Love and Violence: A Revolt Against Permanent Juniority arrives at a moment when his generation – the born-free, the tenderpreneurs, the unemployed graduates, the greedy beneficiaries of democracy […]