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BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS - A Love Story - by Hlumelo Biko (Paperback)

BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS - A Love Story - by  Hlumelo Biko (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>'If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is organised ...'</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>In this deeply personal book, Hlumelo Biko, who was born of Steve and Mamphela's union, movingly recounts his parents' love story and how the BCM's message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history.</p><p> </p><p>Based on interviews with some of the BCM's founding members, <em>Black Consciousness </em>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p><br></p>

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