{"product_id":"black-consciousness-a-love-story-9781776190447","title":"BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS - A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is organised ...'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and racial discrimination. Their love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by a group of 15 principled and ambitious students at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply personal book, Hlumelo Biko, who was born of Steve and Mamphela's union, movingly recounts his parents' love story and how the BCM's message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on interviews with some of the BCM's founding members, \u003cem\u003eBlack Consciousness \u003c\/em\u003edescribes the early years of the movement in vivid detail and sets out its guiding principles around a positive black identity, black theology and the practice of Ubuntu through community-based programmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spiritual conversation with his father, Hlumelo re-examines what it takes to live a Black Consciousness life in today's South Africa. He also explains why he believes his father - who was brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1977 - would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496511803666,"sku":"9781776190447","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da010452-a29c-4613-9035-7a5dfd24cae5.jpg?v=1730695380","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-consciousness-a-love-story-9781776190447","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}