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Tendayi Sithole is senior lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa.Sithole's critical decolonial foray into the liberatory ideas of Steve Biko is pioneering and refreshing in many ways. Biko is neither reduced to a simple shrine to be worshiped nor a hagiography to be celebrated. Through Sithole's sharp analysis, Biko is rightfully given a place in the burgeoning pantheon of black liberatory philosophies.
- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of "The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life" (2016) and "Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization" (2018),
This bookis a profound ground-breaking account of Biko’s philosophy from a decolonial epistemic perspective hitherto unheard of. It is testimony to the relevance and ever growing re-emergence of Biko and the Black Consciousness philosophy in a country still suffering from antiblack racism, Nelson Mandela’s efforts at racial reconciliation notwithstanding. Sithole’s book is therefore a must-read for anyone trying to understand the confluence of existentialism and decolonial theory in Biko’s philosophy of Black subjectivity in an antiblack society.
- Mabogo Percy More, Professor of Philosophy, University of Limpopo,
Introduction: Biko’s Contested Subjectivities
Chapter 1: Biko: A Decolonial Philosopher
Chapter 2: The Existential Scandal of Antiblack Racism
Chapter 3: The Mask of Bad Faith
Chapter 4: The Colonial State: The Freedom Charter and the Modicum of Freedom
Chapter 5: The Racist State, the Law, and its Outlawed
Chapter 6: Biko and the Problématique of Death
Coda: Charting the Terrains of the De-colonial Turn
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