The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his bi… - Steve Biko

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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

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About Steve Biko

Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Bantu Stephen Biko Stephen Biko Stephen Bantu Biko Biko Frank Talk
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What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.

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