Stephen Biko The Architect of Black Consciousness in South Africa

"The education of an African child was amongst many issues fought for, by Steve Biko and his generation. In honouring Biko's legacy, we must ... Stephen Bantu Biko was a South African activist. He is famous for his activism against apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Stephen Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. Review: Biko, Steve. Black Consciousness in South Africa. 1979. Ed. Arnold Millard. Leketi Makalela. Abstract. Stephen Bantu Biko, the father of the Black ... Twenty years after an inquest magistrate ruled that no one was to blame for black consciousness leader Steve Biko's death in detention. Bantu Stephen Biko's death on I2 September I977 was greeted with outrage by not only his fellow blacks in South Africa and elsewhere, but by men of goodwill ... Born in Tylden, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape), on 18 December 1946, he was academically gifted but ran up against policies designed ... South African political activist. In 1965 he won a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Natal (Durban) and soon became involved in the ... He talked about reclaiming blackness, but also put thought into how we as black people in South Africa should relate to coloureds and Indians as ... Activist Steve Biko's speech links white racism to the Black Consciousness movement, calling on black South Africans to create their own ...