Bongane Mkhize

If you’re interested or you’re an enthusiast or a scholar of Afrocentricity and decoloniality thought which is embedded on the interrogation of global racism, humanism and empathic revolution, this text is for you. The text grapples with the foundational issues of racism and coloniality as the dark side of modernity from the point of view of the global south intellectualism and how Bantu Stephen Biko ( Steve Biko) invoked the philosophical ideas and thoughts of Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Jean Pierre Sartre in his efforts to entrench black consciousness in the fragile world of the subalterns When you’re half way through this text you’ll be able to activate a new introspection of your identity The text places Steve Biko in the center of the philosophy of black consciousness and its focal point which is revolutionary humanism founded on Fanonian humanism. Selflessness and concern for total human emancipation evolve continuously from the beginning to the end of the text as it attempts to propagate for humanist approach to the harsh realities of this world which is currently held ransom by selfish Neo-liberalist capitalism clandestinely led by the Euro-north American canons Steve Biko and Frantz Fanon return vigorously as their ideas are re-enacted in the incidents of 2014 where and when African Americans “can’t breathe” - a cry that gave birth to hashtags that revived Fanon’s “can’t breathe” condition of the black and brown people in the late 1950s The question of relevance whether to read or discard both Biko and Fanon is best answered and articulated in this text that you discard Biko and Fanon you discard your own being and efforts of becoming a member of the families of the peoples of the south -the people of the real universe