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“Biko,” four letters rich in signification, gathering the labor of a generation in struggle—a veritable treasure chest bringing out the usual looters.
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Notes
Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (Johannesburg, SA: Picador Africa, 2004), 173.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana Press, 1992), 247.
Ibid.
Harry Cleaver, Reading Capital Politically (1979; repr., Leeds, England: Anti-Thesis, 2000), 30.
Leopold Senghor, “Negritude: A Humanism Of The Twentieth Century,” in L. Chrisman and P. Williams, eds., Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 27.
Ibid.
Ibid., 28.
Ibid., 30.
Ibid.
Ibid., 31.
Like Edward Said’s Conrad (see Culture and Imperialism [New York: Knopf, 1994]), Biko is keenly aware of the “mutual reinforcing of the sword and the torch…where it was impossible to convert, firearms were readily available and used to advantage” (Ibid., 45).
Ibid., 45.
Ibid., 43–46.
Ibid., 47.
J. Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today (London, Pluto Press, 2002), 1.
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Veriava, A., Naidoo, P. (2008). Remembering Biko for the Here and Now. In: Mngxitama, A., Alexander, A., Gibson, N.C. (eds) Biko Lives!. Contemporary Black History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230613379_13
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