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We are Black Consciousness Poetry (BCP).
Black Consciousness Poetry(BCP)  was officially formed on October 2014, as awareness movement.
Our movement is built on the foundation of Black Consciousness Movement, founded by our revolutionary father Bantu Stephen Biko.
We subscribed to the concept of Black Consciousness and our current approach is through poetry and discussions that seek to emancipate the minds of our people.
By our people we refer to blacks and by blacks we refer to , Bantu's, Khoi, San, coloureds and Indians.
But we understand that not all this people will identify themselves as blacks and so Bantu Steven Biko taught us that when we say blacks we mean those by law or tradition of this country were and at some level are still being politically, economically and socially discriminated against as a group and they have identified themselves as a unit to fight against the struggle towards the realisation of their aspirations.
We have those who are Bantu by blood or looks, who are coloured by blood or looks, who are Khoi by blood or looks, who are San by blood or looks and those who are Indians by blood or looks but they do not identify themselves as part of those who are discriminated against, they do not see the need for what we do and so they are referred to as non-whites.
For their aspirations is whiteness but their pigmentation makes such an impossibility.
The term black has nothing to do with the colour of one’s skin, but to do with the reflection of our mental attitude.
We as BCP have a desire to see black people(Bantus, Khoi, San, coloureds and Indians) free.
We do this by visiting history, through reading books, writing poetry that is inspired by black pain, inspired by black excellence and achievements.
So to show our people that they are not as inferior as they have been taught to believe and to behave.
We host poetry sessions, discussions, we get invited to other platforms, we get invited by students in UCT, by a leader of the way of life church in Khayelitsha. We aim to go to High schools, we basically go anywhere where our people are.
We are currently based in the Milnerton area, Cape Town South Africa.
 
We currently have two projects that are running, the project named Afrodara and the BCP Ubuntu Campaign.
The project Afrodara is aimed at celebrating the inner beauty and the outer black beauty of our women as we have noticed how such women are not recognised by the modern day society that we live in.
We would love to bring about young black proud women who are not ashamed of their natural bodies, their natural skin, their natural hair, their cultural identity, their traditional pride and ultimately their natural beauty.
We have realised that such women are brave as they have to go through the critics of being natural by other women and men in our society.  The critics of being labelled as being old fashioned or backwards living.
These women who embrace and celebrate their natural black beauty, inspires us.
They are displaying that element of self-love, that element of accepting your own and not trying to fit into a standard that is set by people who does not even love you, our nation.
And so through this project, we encourage such women to carry on being proudly black and naturally beautiful.
 
The Ubuntu campaign is to spread black love, black unity, black pride and black excellence in the streets of cape town.
When the sun rise we go out on scheduled calendar dates and go get our blackness, we raise our boards high at cape town train station.
What is written on those boards is our very own proud idioms taught to us from the wisdom of our ancestors.........
 
You can email us at: blackconsciousnesspoetrybcp@gmail.com or phone M. Matemane on 072 484 8547 for more info.
Visit us online: Black Consciousness Poetry on Facebook, where we share our online poems, online discussions and photos of events we attend and also visit Soundcloud, poemhunters and Audiomack.

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