BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS - A Love Story

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'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>