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Biko : a life / Xolela Mangcu ; foreword by Nelson Mandela.
Van Pelt Library DT1949.B55 M36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mangcu, Xolela, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biko, Steve, 1946-1977.
- Biko, Steve.
- Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.
- Political activists--South Africa--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Black nationalism.
- History.
- Government, Resistance to.
- South Africa.
- Government, Resistance to--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Black nationalism--South Africa--History--20th century.
- South Africa--History--1961-1994.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
- Summary:
- As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organisation which would mobilise a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in police 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 felt strongly today, both in South Africa, and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 In My Mind's Eye 23
- 2 Steve Biko in the Intellectual History of the Eastern Cape: The African Elite and European Modernity 33
- 3 Formative Years in Ginsberg Location, King William's Town 79
- 4 Leaving Home: Lovedale, St Francis College 105
- 5 The Trouble(s) with NUSAS 113
- 6 Steve Biko and the Making of SASO 150
- 7 Strategic Leadership and "Losing Grip": The Black People's Convention 176
- 8 Banishment and Homecoming 204
- 9 How Steve was Killed 243
- 10 Steve Biko's "Extraordinary Gift of Leadership" 267.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Tafelberg, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780767857
- 1780767854
- OCLC:
- 855044677
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