Beyond Western Solipsism: Reading Kim Heller Book: Through African Existential Thought

The Africanists who advanced the Africanist Manifesto through Sharpeville/Langa were suppressed through banning orders. Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, who picked up where the Africanists left off, were met with a killing and a subsequent ideological pivot: the enemy became not the white power structure but a small white capitalist class, reframed through the language of…