Thank you. Thank you for dedicating your life, short as it was, to standing firm for what you believed in. Because of you, I’m proud to be a smart black woman. Because of you, I don’t have issues with being a “clever” black. I understand the power of knowledge and continue to learn. The world has changed tremendously

By Thami Prusent My stolen love drips from ink-stained fingers with which I crossed my heart and hoped to die My swindled love bleeds torn like birth tissue nourishing the roots where x marks the spot of smoke-screened smiles and forgotten declarations My menstrual love leaks of mangled hope and forcibly taken innocence My severed love gushes to

by Alicia M. Sanabria The much anticipated day was before me and I felt honored to be part of the official opening of the Steve Biko Centre in the Ginsberg township of King William’s Town in the East Cape of South Africa. My colleague Michel Chagas and I were invited guests of the Steve Biko Foundation and the

1. What could have motivated Steve Biko's involvement in the Black Consciousness Movement? In 1963, at the age of 15 years Steve Biko was admitted to Lovedale College, a missionary institution at which his older brother Khaya had enrolled a year earlier. Later that year, the two brothers along with 50 other learners were arrested on the suspicion

Bantu Stephen Biko was born in Tilden on the 18th December 1946. In 1968, he and his colleagues founded the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and Biko was elected its first President. SASO's primary engagement was to address the inferiority complex that was the mainstay of passiveness within the ranks of Black students. Biko’s political activities resulted in

The Algerian political theorist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) analyzed the nature of racism and colonialism and developed a theory of violent anticolonialist struggle. Frantz Fanon was born in the French colony of Martinique. He volunteered for the French army during World War II, and then, after being released from military service, he went to France, where he studied medicine