Indeed, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in his preface to Steve Biko’s I write what I like: “Black Consciousness sought to awaken in us the sense of our infinitive value and worth in the sight of God because we were all created in God’s image, so that our worth is intrinsic to who we are and not dependent on biological irrelevancies such as ethnicity, skin colour or race.
Black Consciousness helped to exorcise the horrible demons of self-hatred and selfcontempt that made blacks suck up to whites whilst treating fellow blacks as the scum they thought themselves to be.