TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mangcu,Xolela
AU  - Mandela,Nelson
TI  - Biko: a life 
SN  - 9781780767857
AV  - DT1949.B55 M36 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Biko, Steve,
KW  - Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa
KW  - Political activists
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Biography
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Black nationalism
KW  - 1961-1994
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1961-1978
N1  - Originally published by Tafelberg, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2012; Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -