2,030 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

” Nothing else matters if there is no liberation. It should be the deliverance of blacks themselves, for they are the ones who are in need for it. Biko is a philosopher of liberation in that he imagined the world that is outside oppression. It is a world where liberation must continue to be the existential mode of life – the very foci. As a philosopher of liberation, Biko was not obsessed with oppression as he might be simplistically accused, but he understood its minor details, it’s strategies, it’s operations, it’s concealment, it’s deceit, and, above all, it’s anatomy in toto.

If there is totality of understanding of what oppression is, then it is the serious indicator that it must come to an end, and there must be a pursuit of liberation at all costs. If philosophical preoccupations do speak directly about the questions of liberation, then that philosophy as Dussel (1985) puts it, is a philosophy of liberation.”