This is particularly so because the threat of forgetting who we are, where we come from and how we got to be where we are looms ever larger, particularly for the younger generations. I never met Steve Biko personally, having been a teenager in Limpopo by the time he departed this world. His teachings, though, had a profound influence on me.
That was the period historians referred to as a period of political lull. My ultimate involvement in politics stemmed, in part, from some of those efforts of the black consciousness movement to “conscientise” the masses and revive political activism.