Steve Biko Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/steve-biko/ Arts and African History Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Azanian Family Remembering Bantu Biko, Honouring the Elders Who Tend to Our Liberation History with Care https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15110 Friday, 12 September 2025 Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre We, the generation of Black Power Pan-Afrikanist activist-scholars and truth seekers, stand in profound gratitude to the elders and pathfinders who have safeguarded our liberation history with care, courage, and unyielding commitment. In 1995, in direct defiance of the logics of erasure employed by the so-called democratic [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/feed/ 0 Mthuli Ka Shezi 50th Anniversary Commemoration https://consciousness.co.za/mthuli-ka-shezi-50th-anniversary-commemoration/ https://consciousness.co.za/mthuli-ka-shezi-50th-anniversary-commemoration/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:07:30 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14794 BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT-UNITED (BCM-U) “WE ARE MADE OF FIBRE THAT COULD CHANGE THINGS”: A TRIBUTE TO THE AZANIAN MARTYR MTHULI KA SHEZI There are those who in the course of the revolutionary struggle sacrifice their energy, time, ideas and ultimately their lives for the course of liberation. It is common knowledge that life is in [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/mthuli-ka-shezi-50th-anniversary-commemoration/feed/ 0 Biko had no special “Relationship” with Johan Rupert https://consciousness.co.za/biko-had-no-special-relationship-with-johan-rupert/ https://consciousness.co.za/biko-had-no-special-relationship-with-johan-rupert/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:18:27 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13666 42 years after his brutal assassination in police detention, serious contestations around the legacy, and indeed the person, of Bantu Stephen Biko persist and prevail in democratic South Africa. There’ve been various concerted efforts by the intelligentsia, activists, politicians, businessmen and outright opportunists to appropriate Biko for their own respective agendas. These groups and individuals [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/biko-had-no-special-relationship-with-johan-rupert/feed/ 0 African nationalism and expressing blackness in South Africa today https://consciousness.co.za/african-nationalism-and-expressing-blackness-in-south-africa-today/ https://consciousness.co.za/african-nationalism-and-expressing-blackness-in-south-africa-today/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:31:12 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13374 In this article, I’m trying to address two distinct terms that are very close to my spirituality – African (Black) Nationalism and expressing blackness. In understanding the concept of African Nationalism in South Africa, it is necessary to draw from the likes of Anton Lembede, AP Mda, Robert Sobukwe and Steve Biko. And although the [...]

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