Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-1818-5 • Hardback • July 2016 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-1-4985-1820-8 • Paperback • June 2017 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-1-4985-1819-2 • eBook • July 2016 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Tendayi Sithole is senior lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa.
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
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