This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.

An examination of the legacy of Steve Biko and the current state of post-apartheid South African politics

PART 1: PHILOSOPHIC DIALOGUES * Biko: African Existentialist Philosophy / Mabogo P. More * Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko / Lou Turner * A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness / Lewis R. Gordon * Biko and the Problematic of Presence / Frank Wilderson * May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's Challenge to Religion / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke * PART 2: CONTESTED HISTORIES AND INTELLECTUAL TRAJECTORIES * Black Consciousness after Biko: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987 / Nigel C. Gibson * An Illuminating Moment: Background to the Azanian Manifesto / Neville Alexander * Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa / Nurina Ally and Shireen Ally * PART 3: CULTURAL CRITIQUE AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER * The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa/Azania / Mphutlane wa Bofelo * A Human Face: Biko's Conceptions of African Culture and Huamism / Andries Oliphant * Re-membering Biko For The Here And Now / Ahmed Veriava and Prishani Naidoo * Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa / Pumla Dineo Gqola * The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980 / M. J. Oshadi Mangena * PART 4: MEMORY AND COUNTER-MEMORY * Interview with Strini Moodley / Naomi Klein, Ashwin Desai, and Avi Lewis * Interview with Lybon Mabasa / Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander * Interview with Deborah Matshoba / Amanda Alexander and Andile Mngxitama