Author: Ashwin Desai

The afterlives of Biko: Remembering Mbongeni Baninzi

But they/They would have Me/They would haveYou/Believe/That Steve Biko is Dead/You and I…We know better. – Millard Arnold On September 25, 1977, Steve Biko was buried. Beaten to death by the apartheid state. Spawning a new language of struggle and cajoling new subjectivities into being, Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) influenced a generation. What happened […]

The Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’

THE ROAD FROM LIBERATION TO DISILLUSIONMENT Reflecting on detention during apartheid and Steve Biko’s enduring influence, Ashwin Desai connects the past to anxieties about corruption, political radicalism and South Africa’s democratic future. ‘Our pains will petrify when our gestures no longer make sense. But our tears, brother, who will take them on himself?’  – (Edmond […]

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