Cloete, M.2017-01-122017-01-122016Cloete, M. (2016). Allan Boesak: innocence and the struggle for humanity. Acta Theologica, 24, 17-42.1015-8758 (print)2309-9089 (online)http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v36i1.3Shttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/5285As a Black theologian and political activist, deeply committed to the cause of freedom, reconciliation and justice in South Africa, Allan Boesak has embraced the philosophy of Black consciousness as a legitimate moral-political foundation for the development of national unity. Boesak is of the view that post-apartheid South Africa is still deeply plagued by a racist legacy of moral-political “innocence”. I explore the validity of Boesak’s position from the perspective of his fundamental claim that the philosophy of Black Consciousness represents a legitimate framework for addressing the legacy of “innocence”, construed by him as an epistemic condition that refuses to engage with the historical “truth” of race thinking.enBlack consciousnessInnocenceUnityRacismHumanismNon-violenceArticleFaculty of Theology, University of the Free State