Mangcu, Xolela,  1966- <br/><br/>
Biko :  a life / 
Xolela Mangcu ; foreword by Nelson Mandela. 
 - 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published by Tafelberg, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2012. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780767857 1780767854 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Biko, Steve, 1946-1977. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political activists--South Africa--Biography.<br/>Government, Resistance to--History--South Africa--20th century.<br/>Black nationalism--History--South Africa--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>South Africa--History--1961-1994.<br/>South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT1949.B55  / M36 2014