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We Write What We Like : Celebrating Steve Biko, Paperback / softback Book

We Write What We Like : Celebrating Steve Biko Paperback / softback

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Steve Biko, father of the black consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977.

Biko was only 30 years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid.

This year, 2007, saw the 30th anniversary of Biko's death.

To mark the occasion, the Minister of Science and Technology and President of Azapo, 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, President Thabo Mbeki, writer Darryl Accone, journalists Lizeka Mda and Bokwe Mafuna, academics Jonathan Jansen, Achille Mbembe, Mandla Seleoane and Saths Cooper, a friend of Biko's and former president of Azapo.

The essays cover a wide range of key moments in a significant time in South African history, both personal and public - being on trial with Biko, talking with him about his philosophy and his vision, listening to him speak from a podium. Some of the contributors never met Biko face to face but their accounts are nevertheless interesting as they describe the moment when Biko's philosophy captured their imaginations, as it swept through a generation hungry and eager for a new and dynamic way to fight oppression.

We write what we like proudly echoes the title of Biko's seminal 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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