6/19/2023 0 Comments I write what i like by steve biko![]() ![]() The Black Consciousness Movement centred on race as a determining factor in the oppression of Black people in South Africa, in response to racial oppression and the dehumanisation of Black people under Apartheid. Credit: South African History Online via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. Biko’s philosophy focused primarily on liberating the minds of Black people who had been relegated to an inferior status by white power structures, seeing the power struggle in South Africa as ‘a microcosm of the confrontation between the third world and the first world’. He had witnessed police raids during his childhood and lived through the brutality and intimidation the Apartheid government was known for. SASO was a direct response to what Biko saw as the inaction of the National Union of South African Students in representing the needs of Black students.īiko’s experiences under Apartheid drove his philosophy and political activism. He later founded the South African Students Organisation (SASO) in 1968, in an effort to represent the interests of Black students in the then University of Natal (later KwaZulu-Natal). ![]() Born 18 December 1946, Steve Biko was a South African activist who pioneered the philosophy of Black Consciousness in the late 1960s. ![]()
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