@article {du Toit:June 2008:1023-0807:28,
	author = "du Toit, Cornel",
	title = "Black Consciousness as an Expression of Radical Responsibility: Biko an African Bonhoeffer",
	journal = "Religion and Theology",
	volume = "15",
	year = "June 2008",
	abstract = "The article reflects on the ongoing relevance of Biko's thought 30 years after his death. It is not so much a comparison between Biko and Bonhoeffer's thinking as it is a focus on one aspect of Bonhoeffer's thinking, namely the insistence on independence and self-responsibility in your own situation, which is a premise of Biko's thinking. As the father of Black Consciousness in South Africa, Biko laid the foundation for black self-understanding and self-responsibility. The value of his thinking lies in a hermeneutics of consciousness, which he established and which is a presupposition of his ideals of self-responsibility and self-emancipation. Biko's hermeneutics of the self is considered with reference to the forces that kept black people captive. Although Black Consciousness is seen as a historically contingent phenomenon, the challenge of black liberation remains. Biko's legacy is vital for the establishment of a hermeneutics of poverty and freedom, which is presented as a condition for African liberation in the 21st century.",
	pages = "28-52(25)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/rat/2008/00000015/F0020001/art00003"
	doi = "doi:10.1163/157430108X308145"
}