Biko: The True Story of the Young South African Martyr and His Struggle to Raise Black Consciousness
Donald Woods
Apr 2011 · Macmillan + ORM
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The groundbreaking biography that inspired the film Cry Freedom: “A personal testament to a powerful, tragic figure” who led the movement against apartheid (The New York Times Book Review).
As the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko fought to end apartheid and establish universal suffrage in South Africa. As his movement grew, the National Party government began to see him as a threat. On August 13, 1977, Biko was arrested, interrogated, and severely beaten. On September 12, he died in prison.
Editor of a leading anti-apartheid paper, Donald Woods was a friend of Steve Biko and went into exile in order to write his testimony about the life and work of a remarkable man.
“Courageous and passionate . . . Mr. Woods’s brave attack on the shabby and ultimately murderous expedients of a society dominated by fear and greed should serve as both an inspiration and a warning.” —Christopher Hampton in The Sunday Times
As the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko fought to end apartheid and establish universal suffrage in South Africa. As his movement grew, the National Party government began to see him as a threat. On August 13, 1977, Biko was arrested, interrogated, and severely beaten. On September 12, he died in prison.
Editor of a leading anti-apartheid paper, Donald Woods was a friend of Steve Biko and went into exile in order to write his testimony about the life and work of a remarkable man.
“Courageous and passionate . . . Mr. Woods’s brave attack on the shabby and ultimately murderous expedients of a society dominated by fear and greed should serve as both an inspiration and a warning.” —Christopher Hampton in The Sunday Times
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4.8
35 reviews
Thabo Mokoena
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October 7, 2016
You better handcuff me or chain me ,so I can't retaliate, if you beat me or you do rough staff that will make me to be impossible,and that will make me to think that you're police, but if you talk to me that will make me soft because I'll think that' you're human being.
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Thabo Monnakhotla
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November 19, 2017
I love how the writer draws you in being a part of the emotions he might have been feeling about the tortures our beloved fallen heroes had to suffer during apartheid, it's a beautifully articulated book.
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Whitthread Mashiane
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May 14, 2014
The legend you seldom read about. try it, and rather you tell us how apartheid can be justified.
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About the author
Donald Woods was a South-African born journalist who founded and edited The Daily Dispatch, which he used as a vehicle to attack South Africa's apartheid establishment. He was exiled to London where he remained until his death from cancer in 2001.
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