Steve Biko: ‘The Most Potent Weapon in the Hands of the Oppressor is the Mind of the Oppressed’

Mike Peters You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway. – Steve Biko, Interview with American journalist a few months before his death Mention the name of Steve Biko today and, although a few people might recall the 1980 Peter Gabriel song or the…

Youth Touched by Biko: The Quest for a “More Humane Face”

Veli Mbele This brief input deals with the meaning of Steve Bantu Biko for young people today and whether his vision of bestowing upon South Africa “a more humane face” remains valid. Biko is without doubt one of the most important figures of Black liberation of the past century. Today, 41 years after his murder,…

Steve Biko: Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement

Pan-African News Wire Steve Bantu Biko, a political activist and writer, is regarded as the father of the Black Consciousness movement in the Union of South Africa. Biko’s short 30-year life was consumed with the development of an acute awareness of the evils of apartheid, the social system under which non-whites lived in South Africa….

Steve Biko Speaks on the Black Consciousness Movement

This is a rare interview which took place just before his assassination.