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 […]
THE AWAKENING OF THE SOVEREIGN MIND
—Merging Nietzschean Will to Power and Biko’s Black Consciousness to Remedy Post-Apartheid Decay— by Aubrey Somana Three decades into its democratic dispensation, South Africa finds itself trapped in an existential malaise. Beyond the quantifiable metrics of infrastructure collapse, state capture, systemic unemployment, and pervasive crime lies a deeper, more insidious malady: a crisis of agency. […]
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF LIBERATION
Imperialism and colonisation are not sustained by brute force alone. They require a particular sophistication of intellect, organisation, imagination and political engineering. It takes considerable ingenuity, after all, to conceive of a maritime expedition from Europe to the southern extremity of Africa, establish a foothold there, and subsequently construct the military, political, economic and ideological […]