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Andile Mngxitama, Amanda Alexander, and Nigel C. Gibson, eds. Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ? + 283 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper
"From my point of view it's good BC [the Black Consciousness Movement] has been written out of the struggle. Because if it was written in then we're part of the problem. Now we're still part of the solution" (274). Just when some thought that neoliberalism had triumphed as an ideology in South Africa here comes a Trojan horse - a volume on the continuing relevance of the Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko! The contributors to this volume provide insight into the BC movement by discussing its philosophy, contested history, and intellectual trajectories, as well as assessing the movement as a form of cultural critique and as a commentary on the politics of gender. In so doing they demonstrate how the ANC has taken over the term "black" without providing...