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at 11/14/2014

Friday Feature: The Negritude Movement

14^th November2014

Négritude is a literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s. Its founders included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas. The word négritude derives from the French word "Nègre" and literally means "negro-ness." The Négritude writers found solidarity in

at 10/31/2014

Friday Feature: 3rd Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe

31^th October2014

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Hugh Masekela Delivers the Lecture at LSE Diamond Biko By Hugh Masekela Bantu Biko’s life was yanked from us as brutally as was that of Lumumba, of Sobukwe, of Makana, of the Mxenges, of Sharpeville, of the children of 1976 and millions of people of the continent of Africa for whom there is nary a plague anywhere. But

at 10/24/2014

Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe, 2014

24^th October2014

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[View the story "Art and Activism: reflections on the anti-apartheid struggle and two decades of South African democracy" on Storify] This story was accessed on LSE's Storify https://storify.com/LSEpublicevents/art-and-activism-reflections-on-the-anti-apartheid [ View the story "Art and Activism: reflections on the anti-apartheid struggle and two decades of South African democracy" on Stor...

at 10/17/2014

Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe, 2012

17^th October2014

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Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the New South Africa: by Barney Pityana Any study of Steve Biko can never be complete without a reference to his approach to religion and the role of the church. What Steve Biko had to say about the church’s role in colonization was not new. Neither was his

at 10/10/2014

Friday Feature: Hugh Masekela Biography

10^th October2014

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Names: Masekela, Hugh Born: 4 April 1939, Witbank, Mmpumalanga (then Eastern Transvaal), South Africa In summary: Celebrated musician, singer, composer and trumpet player Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play the piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man

at 10/03/2014

Friday Feature: Black People's Convention (BPC)

03^th October2014

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The launch of the BPC at St Peter's Seminary, Hammanskraal, 8 February 1973. The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly white, liberal universities. Many of the campaigns that were undertaken under its auspices were carried out by formations that embraced BPC’s Black

at 9/30/2014

Steve Biko Tribute Poem by Rev. Micheal Weeder

30^th September2014

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This is a poem written and recited by Rev Michael Weeder, the Dean of St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, on September 14th. Born of Mathew and Alice 'Mamcete'; brother to Bukelwa and Khaya and Nobandile, the lastborn. Death ambushed you on the road of your own Via Dolorosa: The way of suffering beyond Nongqawuse’s place of

at 9/26/2014

Friday Feature: Black Community Programmes (BCP)

26^th September2014

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Zanempilo Clinic In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) resuscitated the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa – at first through the establishment of the South African Students Organisation (SASO). Conscious of the limitations of a student-oriented organisation, the BCM subsequently developed a number of political and community

at 9/19/2014

South African Student Organisation (SASO)

19^th September2014

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The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break away from the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). NUSAS was a liberal organisation dominated by White students. When it was formed in 1924, it was an exclusively White student body that