Steve Biko returns : the persistence of black consciousness in Azania (South Africa).

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dc.contributor.authorTafira, Kenneth Mateesanwa
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-15T08:07:04Z
dc.date.available2014-01-15T08:07:04Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-15
dc.description.abstractSteve Biko returns and continues to illuminate the postapartheid social order. His contestation by various claimants for different reasons shows his continuing and lasting legacy. However he finds a special niche among a disenfranchised and frustrated township youth who are trapped in township struggles where they attempt to derive a meaning. More important is why these youth who neither saw nor participated in the struggle against apartheid are turning to an age old idea like Black Consciousness in a context of the pervasive influence of non-racialism, rainbowism and triumphalism of neo-liberalism. The realisation is that a human-centred society with a human face which Black Consciousness practitioners advocated and strove for is yet to be realised. This shows the anomalies and maladies of a postcolonial dispensation where ideals, principles and teleology of the liberation struggle are yet to be consummated. Thus Black Consciousness as a node in a long thread of black political thought in the country; and as a spirit, will always be both an emotion, and a motion that finds a new meaning with each generation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net10539/13479
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshBlack Consciousness Movement of South Africa.
dc.subject.lcshBlacks--Race identity--South Africa.
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa--Race relations.
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa--Politics and government--1994-
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa--Politics and government--1994-
dc.titleSteve Biko returns : the persistence of black consciousness in Azania (South Africa).en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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