I Write What I Like

The collected writings of Steve Biko, the founder of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement, assembled after his death in police detention in 1977. Through essays and articles — many written under the pen name Frank Talk — Biko argues that Black people must first free their own minds from inferiority before political liberation can follow. It is the primary statement of Black Consciousness in Biko's own words.

Author: Steve Biko (edited by Aelred Stubbs) · Original publisher: Bowerdean Press, London, 1978