Black consciousness : a love story / Hlumelo Biko.

• Living with loss -- An oasis of excellence -- A lioness at the foot at the Soutpansberg -- The 'Durban Moment' -- A movement is born -- Faith and faithlessness -- Harnessing the power of ubuntu -- An unjust trial and unjustifiable murders -- Sprout -- Born at the right time -- Pale skin, white masks -- The BCM within the ANC.

• "In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and racial discrimination. Their love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by a group of 15 principled and ambitious students at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s. In this deeply personal book, Hlumelo Biko, who was born of Steve and Mamphela's union, movingly recounts his parents⁰́₉ love story and how the BCM's message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history. Based on interviews with some of the BCM's founding members, Black Consciousness describes the early years of the movement in vivid detail and sets out its guiding principles around a positive black identity, black theology and the practice of Ubuntu through community-based programmes. In spiritual conversation with his father, Hlumelo re-examines what it takes to live a Black Consciousness life in today's South Africa. He also explains why he believes his father - who was brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1977 - would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today"--Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Blacks  -- South Africa -- Politics and government. (LCSH)

Blacks  -- South Africa -- Ethnic identity. (LCSH)

South Africa  -- Race relations. (LCSH)

South Africa  -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Biko, Steve, 1946-1977.

Ramphele, Mamphela.

Institutionsnamn

Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.

Klassifikation

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