I Write What I Like

I Write What I Like ( full name I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko ) is a compilation of writings of the South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.

I Write What I Like contains a selection of Biko's writings from 1969, when he became president of the South African Student Organization, by the year 1972, when a publication ban was imposed on him. Originally the collection was published in 1978. The book was republished in 2002.

I Write What I Like Biko's conviction thereof shows that blacks in South Africa can not be free, as long as they do not stick together, to break the chains of slavery. This is the key tenet of the Black Consciousness Movement, which he co-founded.

The collection was edited by Aelred Stubbs. The book includes a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an introduction by Malusi and Thoko Mpumlwana, who were both involved with Biko in the Black Consciousness Movement, a commemorative book on Biko by Father Aelred Stubbs, who had been his pastor and friend for a long time, and a new foreword by Professor Lewis Gordon.

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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. " - Steve Biko