Steve Biko: The African Revolutionary, Why was he Killed?

On September 12, 1977, the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa was dealt a heavy blow due to the death of Bantu Steve Biko, a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s until his death in police detention in 1977.

Biko was one of the most prominent leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle and in some quarters he was seen as “the most important black South African leader of this generation.” So important, in fact, that the Apartheid Government was terrified of him.

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Sources:

Steve Biko: I WRITE WHAT I LIKE

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Biko

https://www.thoughtco.com/stephen-bantu-steve-biko-44575

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/stephen-bantu-biko

The Death of Steve Biko, Revisited

Steve Biko and the philosophy of Black consciousness

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/afrikaner-police-admit-to-killing-stephen-biko

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/-wWBQm1-1QMA8A?hl=en

https://www.sbf.org.za/home/steve-biko/

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Silent Partner: The Rain

Allegro: Emit Fenn

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