By Steve Biko
On twelfth September 1977, Steve Biko was once murdered in his felony mobilephone. He used to be basically 31, yet his imaginative and prescient and air of mystery - captured during this choice of his paintings - had already remodeled the schedule of South African politics. This e-book covers the fundamental philosophy of black attention, Bantustans, African tradition, the institutional church and Western involvement in apartheid.
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And because he equated all that was valuable with whiteness, our Churches through our ministers see all these vices I have mentioned above not as manifestations of the cruelty and injustice which we are subjected to by the white man but inevitable proof that after all the white man was right when he described us as savages. Thus if Christianity in its introduction was corrupted by the inclusion of aspects which made it the ideal religion for the colonisation of people, nowadays in its interpretation it is the ideal religion for the maintenance of the subjugation of the same people.
The craze about jazz arises out of a conversion by the African artists of mere notes to meaningful music, expressive of real feelings. The Monkey Jive, Soul etc. are all aspects of a modern type African culture that expresses the same original feelings. Solos like those of Pat Boone and Elvis Presley could never really find expression within the African culture because it is not in us [Page 46 ] to listen passively to pure musical notes. Yet when soul struck with its all-engulfing rhythm it immediately caught on and set hundreds of millions of black bodies in gyration throughout the world.
Slowly the ground is being swept off from under our feet and soon we as blacks will believe completely that our political rights are in fact in our "own" areas. Thereafter we shall find that we have no leg to stand on in making demands for any rights in "mainland White South Africa" which incidentally will comprise more than three-quarters of the land of our forefathers. This is the major danger that I see facing the black community at the present moment---to be so conditioned by the system as to make even our most well-considered resistance to fit within the system both in terms of the means and of the goals.