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Book Biko

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Woods
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 142993638X
  • Pages : 553 pages

Download or read book Biko written by Donald Woods and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.

Book The Testimony of Steve Biko

Download or read book The Testimony of Steve Biko written by Steve Biko and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes first to mind when one thinks of political trials in South Africa are the Rivonia Trial of 1956–61 and the Treason Trial of 1963–64. Rarely, if ever, is the 1976 SASO/BPC trial mentioned in the same breath and yet it was perhaps the most political trial of all. The defendants, all members of the South African Students Organisation, or the Black People’s Convention, were in the dock for having the temerity to think; to have opinions; to envisage a more just and humane society. It was a trial about ideas, but as it unfolded it became a trial of the entire philosophy of Black Consciousness and those who championed its cause. On 2 May 1976, senior counsel for the defence in the trial of nine black activists in Pretoria called to the witness stand Stephen Bantu Biko. Although Biko was known to the authorities, and indeed was serving a banning order, not much about the man was known by anyone outside of his colleagues and the Black Consciousness Movement. That was about to change with his appearance as a witness in the SASO/BPC case. He entered the courtroom known to some, but after his four-day testimony he left as a celebrity known to all.

Book I Write what I Like

Download or read book I Write what I Like written by Steve Biko and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic philosophy of black consciousness, Bantustans, African culture, the institutional church and Western involvement in apartheid.

Book Biko Lives

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  • Author : A. Mngxitama
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2008-08-22
  • ISBN : 9780230606494
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Biko Lives written by A. Mngxitama and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.

Book Steve Biko

Download or read book Steve Biko written by Lindy Wilson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear perpetuated by the apartheid regime. He paid the highest price with his life. The brutal circumstances of his death shocked the world and helped isolate his oppressors. This short biography of Biko shows how fundamental he was to the reawakening and transformation of South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century—and just how relevant he remains. Biko’s understanding of black consciousness as a weapon of change could not be more relevant today to “restore people to their full humanity.” As an important historical study, this book’s main sources were unique interviews done in 1989—before the end of apartheid—by the author with Biko’s acquaintances, many of whom have since died.

Book No  46  Steve Biko

Download or read book No 46 Steve Biko written by Hilda Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steve Biko was the forty sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. And for the first time, the inquest revealed full and horrifying details of how political detainees are treated. What exactly happened to Biko in room 619 is known only to his interrogators. But from a close reading of the inquest proceedings, given in this book, it is possible to reconstruct the events and identify the likely culprits. Th inquest verdict exonerated the police, shocking the world but demonstrating once again the inherently ruthless and oppressive nature of the Apartheid state".--BOOKJACKET.

Book Biko

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  • Author : Xolela Mangcu
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2013-09-20
  • ISBN : 0857722778
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Biko written by Xolela Mangcu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organisation which would mobilise a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in police custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Although the rudimentary facts of his life - and death - are well known, there has until now been no in-depth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death. Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is still felt strongly today, both in South Africa, and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights.

Book Black Consciousness in South Africa

Download or read book Black Consciousness in South Africa written by Steve Biko and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court transcripts of South African activist Steve Biko; includes background information.

Book Fanonian Practices in South Africa

Download or read book Fanonian Practices in South Africa written by F. Fanon and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics and by extension research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa.

Book Bounds of Possibility

Download or read book Bounds of Possibility written by N. Barney Pityana and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now almost forty years since Steve Biko died in detention and the major Black Consciousness organizations were banned. Now forty years later, the face of black politics and indeed the whole balance of power in South Africa, has changed almost beyond recognition - and yet the memory of Biko and the imprint of Black Consciousness remain indelibly with us. In this book a number of Biko’s colleagues and friends have come together to reassess the achievements of Biko and Black Consciousness, and to examine the rich legacy they have left us. In their chapters they reflect on the many ways in which the Black Consciousness Movement succeeded in transforming black minds and politics by freeing people to take their destiny into their own hands - encouraging them to press the very limits and redefine what had been accepted as the bounds of possibility. Black Consciousness left a legacy of defiance in action and inspired a culture of fearlessness which was carried forward by the township youth in 1976 and sustained throughout the 1980s. For it is in South Africa’s township that there has been an awakening of the people, people who finally made the politicians move.

Book Steve Biko

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  • Author : Tendayi Sithole
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2017-06
  • ISBN : 9781498518208
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Steve Biko written by Tendayi Sithole and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial philosopher, someone more than just a biographical subject.

Book Cry Freedom

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  • Author : John Briley
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 1987-12-10
  • ISBN : 0140108912
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Cry Freedom written by John Briley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1987-12-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Briley is the award-winning script writer of Ghandi. He has worked with Attenborough and Woods to write a first-rate screenplay for the film "Cry Freedom" and this novelisation of that.

Book No Fears Expressed

Download or read book No Fears Expressed written by Millard Arnold and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, No Fears Expressed is a compilation of quotes taken from the words of the activist and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. Sourced from the iconic I Write What I Like, including the collection of Biko’s columns published in the journal of the South Africa Student Organisation under the pseudonym of ‘Frank Talk’, as well as from The Testimony of Steve Biko (edited by Millard W. Arnold), this book contains many inspirational quotes and thoughts that are still relevant in South African society today. Biko’s words fall under a wide range of topics including racism, black-white relations, remedies for apartheid, colonialism, black rage and township life. All are topics that reflect the ever-present divide that exists between black and white South Africans. Steve Biko would have been 70 years old in 2017. His place in history is firmly cemented and the struggle that he gave his life for continues. He left a legacy of thoughts and words, and these words pay tribute to the courage and power of the young leader who was to become one of Africa’s heroes.

Book Philosophy from Africa

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  • Author : Pieter Hendrik Coetzee
  • Publisher : International Thomson Publishing Services
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Philosophy from Africa written by Pieter Hendrik Coetzee and published by International Thomson Publishing Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perspectives provided in this volume offer wise and refreshing alternatives to problems of self and society, culture, aesthetics, metaphysics, and religion.

Book The Pan African Pantheon

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  • Author : Adekeye Adebajo
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-29
  • ISBN : 1526156806
  • Pages : 893 pages

Download or read book The Pan African Pantheon written by Adekeye Adebajo and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan-Africanism. The book explores the history of Pan-Africanism and quest for reparations, early pioneers of Pan-Africanism as well as key activists and politicians, and Pan-African philosophy and literati. Diverse and key figures of Pan-Africanism from Africa, the Caribbean, and America are covered by these chapters, including: Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Arthur Lewis, Maya Angelou, C.L.R. James, Ruth First, Ali Mazrui, Wangari Maathai, Thabo Mbeki, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Chimamanda Adichie. While acknowledging the contributions of these figures to Pan-Africanism, these essays are not just celebratory, offering valuable criticism in areas where their subjects may have fallen short of their ideals.

Book Critical Psychology

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  • Author : Derek Hook
  • Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781919713885
  • Pages : 676 pages

Download or read book Critical Psychology written by Derek Hook and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a broad introduction to critical psychology and explores the socio-political contexts of post-apartheid South Africa. This title expands on the theoretical resources usually referred to in the field of critical psychology by providing substantive discussions on Black Consciousness, Post-colonialism and Africanist forms of critique.

Book Biko

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  • Author : Xolela Mangcu
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9780624081760
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Biko written by Xolela Mangcu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: