Black Consciousness. A Love Story

Steve Biko's and Mamphela Ramphele's love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s.
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Title: Black Consciousness
Subtitle: A Love Story
Author: Hlumelo Biko
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Johannesburg, South Africa 2023
ISBN 9781776190447 / ISBN 978-1-77-619044-7
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 240 pages, several b/w images

About: Black Consciousness. A Love Story

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. 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 Black Consciousness Movement's message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history. Based on interviews with some of the BCM's founding members, Black Consciousness 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. 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 murdered by the apartheid police in 1977, would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today.

Content: Black Consciousness. A Love Story

Introduction
Living with loss
An oasis of excellence
A lioness at the foot of the Soutpansberg
The 'Durban Moment'
A movement is born
Faith and faithlessness
Harnessing the power of ubuntu
An unjust trial and unjustifiable murders
Sprout
Born at the right time
Pale skin, white masks
The BCM within the ANC
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgements
Index