ABSTRACT

Mindful of 2020’s global focus on questions of systemic racism, this article looks at the continuing salience of the South African activist Steve Biko’s ideas about Black Consciousness and consciousness-raising as they impact young people’s empowerment in African countries. In the context of the UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI GCRF) Accelerate Hub (2019–24), a project exploring interventions in adolescents’ lives across the continent, it considers the ongoing relevance of Biko’s thought in changing mindsets, challenging institutional racism, interrogating the dependency relations that underpinned 20th-century African aid programmes, and transforming the narratives young people in Africa tell about themselves. The article outlines how Hub workshops introduce young people to the Biko-inspired practice of storytelling as speaking from where you stand, resisting negative stereotyping. It offers recommendations concerning agency and intervention drawn from Biko’s key text, I Write What I Like (1978).

摘要

考虑到 2020 年全球对系统性种族主义问题的关注，本文着眼于南非活动家史蒂夫·比科（Steve Biko）关于黑人意识和意识提升的观点的持续突出性，因为它们影响了非洲国家年轻人的赋权。在英国研究与创新全球挑战研究基金 (UKRI GCRF) Accelerate Hub (2019-24) 的背景下，该项目探索了对整个非洲大陆青少年生活的干预措施，它认为 Biko 的思想在改变思维方式方面的持续相关性，具有挑战性制度性种族主义，质疑支撑 20 世纪非洲援助计划的依赖关系，并改变非洲年轻人讲述自己的叙述。这篇文章概述了 Hub 研讨会如何向年轻人介绍受 Biko 启发的讲故事实践，即从你的立场说话，抵制负面的刻板印象。它提供了从 Biko 的关键文本中提取的有关机构和干预的建议，我写我喜欢的东西（1978 年）。