We write what we like : celebrating Steve Biko / edited by Chris van Wyk.

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Van Wyk, Chris

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 170 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781868147014
1868147010
9781776141296
1776141296

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: We write what we like.DDC classification:

322.40968 22

LOC classification:

DT1949.B55 W4 2007

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Contents:

Timeline of Steve Biko's life -- Dear Steve -- Thirty years on and not much has changed -- Steve Biko: 30 years later -- Through chess I discovered Steve Biko -- Biko's influence on me -- Biko's incluence and a reflection -- The impact of Steve Biko on my life -- He shaped the way I see the world -- White carnations and the Black Power revolution: they tried us for our ideas -- Steve Biko and the SASO/PBS trial -- A white man remembers -- King James, Princess Alice, and the ironed hair: a tribute to Stephen Bantu Biko -- Biko's testament of hope -- Black Consciousness and the quest for a true humanity.

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Summary: Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko's death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris van Wyk to compile an anthology of essays as a tribute to the great South African son. Among the contributors are Minister Mangena himself, ex-President Thabo Mbeki, writer Darryl Accone, journalists Lizeka Mda and Bokwe Mafuna, academics Jonathan Jansen, Mandla Seleoane and Saths Cooper, a friend of Biko's and former president of Azapo. We Write What We Like proudly echoes the title of Biko's seminal work, I Write What I Like. It is a gift to a new generation which enjoys freedom, from one that was there when this freedom was being fought for. And it celebrates the man whose legacy is the freedom to think and say and write what we like.

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Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko's death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris van Wyk to compile an anthology of essays as a tribute to the great South African son. Among the contributors are Minister Mangena himself, ex-President Thabo Mbeki, writer Darryl Accone, journalists Lizeka Mda and Bokwe Mafuna, academics Jonathan Jansen, Mandla Seleoane and Saths Cooper, a friend of Biko's and former president of Azapo. We Write What We Like proudly echoes the title of Biko's seminal work, I Write What I Like. It is a gift to a new generation which enjoys freedom, from one that was there when this freedom was being fought for. And it celebrates the man whose legacy is the freedom to think and say and write what we like.

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