I Write What I Like contains a selection of Steve Biko’s writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Students’ Organization, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing. Steve Biko is regarded as a key figure of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. In this collection of writings Biko properly identifies white settler colonialism as the primary contradiction of Africans in Azania (South Africa), not apartheid. Biko’s writing proves to be quite prescient when one observes that in Azania (South Africa), although apartheid has ended, the people’s misery has multiplied significantly under the same white settler colonial polity. This same settler colonial polity continues with the marked distinction of a new native “middleman” bourgeoisie, as Frantz Fanon warned against in The Wretched of the Earth. Neocolonialism is in full effect!
