Why we need Black Consciousness now more than ever: Current erudite paradigms of polite speech have largely yielded lacklustre debate and failed to produce a robust and instructive lexicon on the validity and complexities of black pain and suffering
On the 45th anniversary of the murder of Steve Biko Bantu, and on the 76th birthday of the late iconic poet Mafika Pascal Gwala, Black Consciousness is worth another serious look — not as a narrow political tool in the hands of political opportunism, but as a point of return for a language that makes it sensible
and possible to openly destabilise colonial and institutional racism, as well as the stubborn daily nightmare of whiteness.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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