Stephen Biko A Pioneer of Social Change and Liberation

Stephen Biko was a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. He was considered a martyr after his violent murder in prison. In 1969, Steve Biko and other black students frustrated with white leadership in multi-racial student organizations formed an exclusively black ... Black Consciousness re-energised black opposition to apartheid and helped draw the world's attention to the brutality of South Africa's white minority rule. Steve Biko. Steve Biko was born on 18 December 1946 in Ginsberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was married to Ntsiki Biko. He died on 12 September 1977 in ... Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist who spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. The fundamental tenet of his Black Consciousness philosophy was that being black is not a matter of pigmentation but rather a reflection of a ... Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in ... 1946 December 18: Stephen Bantu Biko is born in Tylden, in the Eastern Cape, to Mzimgayi and Alice Nokuzola Biko. 1951 Biko's father dies. Stephen Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a student leader and founded the Black Consciousness Movement ... In 1968 a 22-year-old medical student walked out of the conference for the National Union for South African students. Steve Biko was enraged ...