Black Consciousness
Hlumelo Biko
‘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 ...’
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 BCM’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 brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1977 – would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today.
Duration - 6h 47m.
Author - Hlumelo Biko.
Narrator - Mark Mwaba.
Published Date - Saturday, 13 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2021 Hlumelo Biko ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
‘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 ...’ 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 BCM’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 brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1977 – would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today. Duration - 6h 47m. Author - Hlumelo Biko. Narrator - Mark Mwaba. Published Date - Saturday, 13 January 2024. Copyright - © 2021 Hlumelo Biko ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:25
Black Consciousness_Introduction
Duration:00:13:29
Black Consciousness_Chapter 01_Living With Loss
Duration:00:20:28
Black Consciousness_Chapter 02_An Oasis of Excellence
Duration:00:16:03
Black Consciousness_Chapter 03_A Lioness at the Foot of the Soutpansberg
Duration:00:14:20
Black Consciousness_Chapter 04_The Durban Moment
Duration:00:38:46
Black Consciousness_Chapter 05_A Movement Is Born
Duration:00:35:25
Black Consciousness_Chapter 06_Faith and Faithlessness
Duration:00:41:55
Black Consciousness_Chapter 07_Harnessing the Power of Ubuntu
Duration:00:38:36
Black Consciousness_Chapter 08_An Unjust Trial and Unjustifiable Murders
Duration:00:31:51
Black Consciousness_Chapter 09_Sprout
Duration:00:20:46
Black Consciousness_Chapter 10_Born at the Right Time
Duration:00:37:50
Black Consciousness_Chapter 11_Pale Skin, White Masks
Duration:00:51:07
Black Consciousness_Chapter 12_The BCM Within the ANC
Duration:00:44:53
Black Consciousness_Acknowledgements
Duration:00:01:15
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:14