Stephen Biko A Guide to Understanding Black Consciousness

Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist who spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. On 12 September 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko, aged 30, died of brain damage from severe beating sustain while in police custody. Twenty years after an inquest magistrate ruled that no one was to blame for black consciousness leader Steve Biko's death in detention. This post is about the South African Black History Hero Steve Biko. Bantu Stephen Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African socialist, Pan-Africanist and anti-apartheid activist. Biko, Steve (Steven Biko) bēˈkō [key], 1946–77, South African political leader. A medical student, he founded (1969) a black student organization and ... Stephen Biko was born on this date in 1946. He was a Black South African anti-apartheid activist, African nationalist, and African socialist. Bantu Stephen Biko, that country's most important Black leader, stepped forward to testify on their behalf and thus broke the ban on his public speaking. Biko, Steve ( Stephen) (1946–77) South African political activist. In 1969 Biko founded the South African Students Organization. In 1972 he co-founded the Black ... Biko died following savage beatings by the security police. The cause of death – and the circumstances – were repressed by the South African ...