Rhabula Darkie Thus emphasizing the need for national policies that are grounded in the ‘real needs’ the experience of common people, Biko was developing a notion of solidarity that rejected the notion of ‘tribal cocoons . . . called ‘‘homelands’’ which he saw as nothing else but sophisticated concentration camps where black people are allowed to ‘‘suffer peacefully’’’ (Biko, 1979, p. 86). At the same time, he was also following Fanon’s conception of a dialectic of a national consciousness, which insisted not only that radical intellectuals reject the racist regime and its invention of ‘tribal’ politics, but that they also, somewhat paradoxically, use what they learned in the apartheid schools and colleges against the regime itself. This, of course, meant that, far from a simple critique of ‘Bantu education’, ‘tribal homelands’ and any collaboration with apartheid, intellectuals had to rethink concepts of collectivity and what it meant to ‘return to the source’ (Cabral, 1974). Biko Lives!!!!
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