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Black Consciousness: Bantu Stephen Biko understood that oppression was maintained through political force, economic domination and the destruction of the confidence of the oppressed.
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Biko and the undone liberation of Blacks

Decades after Steve Biko was killed in apartheid police custody, the reopened inquest highlights not only the state-sanctioned violence of Room 619, but also democratic South…

  • Nelvis Qekema
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