Biko Lives!

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 BofeloA 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