Biko : a life / Xolela Mangcu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangcu, Xolela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biko, Steve, 1946-1977.

Biko, Steve.

Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.

Political activists--South Africa--Biography.

Political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : I.B.Tauris, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 organisation which would mobilise 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 Ma

Contents:

Contents; A Tribute to Stephen Bantu Biko by Nelson Mandela; Preface; 1. In My Mind's Eye; 2. Steve Biko in the Intellectual History of the Eastern Cape: The African Elite and European Modernity; 3. Formative Years in Ginsberg Location, King William's Town; 4. Leaving Home: Lovedale, St Francis College; 5. The Trouble(s) with NUSAS; 6. Steve Biko and the Making of SASO; 7. Strategic Leadership and "Losing Grip": The Black People's Convention; 8. Banishment and Homecoming; 9. How Steve was Killed; 10. Steve Biko's "Extraordinary Gift of Leadership"; Epilogue: Coming Full Circle

Select BibliographyAcknowledgements; About the author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 23, 2013).

ISBN:

9780857734204

0857734202

9780857722775

0857722778

OCLC:

862050163