We write what we like about Steve Biko
What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?
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The Steve Biko Party
What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?
Steve Biko’s Son
Nkosinati Biko on a close and present relationship with his father that is unusual for children in general and for the children of activists in particular.
The proper course of justice
Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.
Reading List: Zikhona Valela
The author of 'Now You Know How Mapetla Died,' a book on the murder of a leading Black Consciousness leader, writes about her research.
The heart of whiteness, South African edition
We don't think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.
Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko's mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
One of the great events in global labor history
2023 marks 50 years since the Durban Strikes. It doesn't fit neatly fit into mainstream accounts of the struggle against South African apartheid.
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
Ramphele has never enjoyed widespread grassroots support as a political figure in South Africa and hasn't been in active in any political movement for at least 30 years now.
Amilcar Cabral and the South Africans
Amilcar Cabral’s influence stretched far beyond the Portuguese colonies, profoundly influencing the political struggle in South Africa, past and present.
Steve Bloom photographs 1970s Cape Town
The London Festival of Photography has opened, and one of its most appealing features is an
Batsumi's cascade of sound
…Black Consciousness and Steve Biko’s calls for a radical reorientation of black culture towards the struggle
An undignified democracy
Three decades after apartheid, South Africans are still waiting for housing, land, and dignity—while elites ask for patience that serves only themselves.
Africa as Science Fiction
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
Who will make the great Sankara biopic?
We don't want to see a film about what might have been, however seductive that aspect of Burkina Faso's history is. But what was achieved.
The State of South African Political Life
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
A time for farewell, and a return
Africans rarely re-evaluate ourselves, the basis of our knowledge and our traditions on our own terms, argues Sierra Leonean writer Ishmael Beah.
Long Walk to Toronto
This boi pic of Nelson Mandela feels like it was picked at random from the Wikipedia version of Mandela's autobiography.
The argument over J.M. Coetzee
J M Coetzee, South Africa's most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country's literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.
South Africa, Post-Trauma
To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?