Thinking w/ Steve Bantu Biko & Chris Hani on a South African Future

Africa World Now Project · Apr 20, 2018 · 58m

In a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” This time-less expression is undoubtedly just as important today, than when these words were first uttered. More importantly, they are fueling grassroots organizing and resistance efforts in South Africa, as well as in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil and other places. We see the echoes of this axiom in movements across South Africa from the Rhodes Must Fall uprisings to the organizational…