Scholar Hour ft Dr. Traci Wyatt
Tue, Nov 28
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
Join us for another edition of Scholar Hour! Our Happy Hour Conversation Series continues with Dr. Traci Wyatt author of Steve Biko: The Radical Gospel of Black Consciousness & professor at Howard University!


Time & Location
Nov 28, 2023, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the book:
During the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, black college students in South Africa became frustrated with apartheid, Bantu education policy, Bantustans, white liberal organizations, and European-branded Christianity. Their anger with white nationalism under apartheid caused them to mobilize, rise up, and fight against systemic oppression for their liberation. The timing was pregnant with purpose for the new generation of leaders to rise since the ANC and PAC were banned, creating an aboveground silence amongst black anti-apartheid revolutionaries.
The reader will be lured into the struggle, blood, loss, tears, and victories of blacks fighting against apartheid in South Africa. Readers will learn about the ideology and way of life adopted by black youth known as black consciousness. The book analyzes how students became so devoted in their beliefs and application of the tenets of black consciousness that it was likened to the gospel message. It…
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