![]() He was immersed into the system of Bantu Education, a system designed to give blacks in South Africa an inferior education. Stephan Bantu Biko was born 1946 right before the implementation of the racially segregationist Apartheid government system. In order to efficiently and effectively compare Fanon’s elaborations with the assertions of Biko, this essay cannot disregard Fanon’s influence on Bikonian thought and philosophy, which is also why a comparative elaboration is not only helpful but also necessary. This will also help us understand the concepts “Black Consciousness” and “White Liberalism” paradoxically. ![]() To fully grasp the assertions Biko makes, this essay will take a close look at the historical period in which Biko lived and wrote and furthermore make note of the historical contexts of this period, in order to understand what informs his views on this relationship. This essay seeks to examine the relationship between Black Consciousness and White Liberals in Bantu Biko’s Essay “White Racism and Black Consciousness” whilst comparing it with Frantz Fanon’s elaborations in the last two chapters of his book “ Black Skins, White Masks” on “The Negro and Recognition”. An Examination of The Relationship between Black Consciousness and White Liberals in Biko’s Essay “White Racism and Black Consciousness”, compared with Fanon’s elaborations in the last two Chapters of Black Skin, White Masks. ![]()
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