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Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader a pivotal figure in South African history As a leading anti apartheid activist and thinker Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement the grassroots organization which would mobilize a large proportion of the black urban population His death in policy custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders Although the rudimentary facts of his life and death are well known there has until now been no in depth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death Xolela Mangcu who knew Biko provides the first in depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti apartheid movement whose legacy is still strongly felt today both in South Africa and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights today A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title selection Biko A LifeAlmost everyone who met Steve Biko was mesmerized by his unique combination of ferocious courage razor sharp mind ability to see to the heart of most issues and great humanity charm and humour One of the greatest what if question of South African history is that of how different would the country be today if it had not been robbed of this brilliant and inspiring leader by the white policemen who systematically beat him to death in a prison cell and then spent decades trying to cover up their sordid crime Would the Black Consciousness Movement Biko formed and led been able to mount a stronger political challenge to the ANC or influence it We will never know but those of us who had the immense privilege to work however briefly with Biko can be certain that he would have loathed the grubby corrupt crony capitalism that 25 years of ANC rule have given our country and the persistence of racial and class privileged glossed only by a new and acquisitive black eliteXolela Mangcu has written a biography worthy of its hero This is a moving and impressive account of Steve Biko in all his complexity one that left me feeling again and overwhelming sense of loss and grief that Biko was murdered so callously and so young Paperback 322. Biko epub file 42092 M2773 2014 Paperback
Xolela Mangcu is the executive chairman of the Platform for Public Deliberation a think tank that promotes open dialogue on political cultural and economic matters affecting South Africa He is the author of Visions of Black Economic Empowerment and To the Brink The State of Democracy in South Africa..
