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I Write What I Like

Steve Biko·1978 (posthumous)·English

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A posthumous collection of Biko's writings, smuggled out and published the year after his death. The essays define Black Consciousness, critique liberal white South African politics, analyze the psychology of apartheid on both the oppressed and the oppressor, and argue that psychological liberation is the necessary foundation for political freedom.

We must pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth. This is what we mean by an inward-looking process. This is the definition of Black Consciousness.

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