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Author:

Mangcu, Xolela, 1966- author.

Title:

Biko : a life / Xolela Mangcu ; foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Publisher:

I.B. Tauris,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

348 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 21 cm

Subject:

Biko, Steve,--1946-1977.
Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.
Political activists--South Africa--Biography.
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.

Other Authors:

Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, writer of introduction.

Notes:

Originally published by Tafelberg, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2012. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.

Contents:

A tribute to Stephen Bantu Biko / by Nelson Mandela -- In my mind's eye -- Steve Biko in the intellectual history of the Eastern Cape: the African elite and European modernity -- Formative years in Ginsberg location, King William's Town -- Leaving home: Lovedale, St Francis College -- The trouble(s) with NUSAS -- Steve Biko and the making of SASO -- Strategic leadership and "losing grip": the Black People's Convention -- Banishment and homecoming -- How Steve was killed -- Steve Biko's "extraordinary gift of leadership".

ISBN:

1780767854
9781780767857

OCLC:

(OCoLC)855044677

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)