Word: biko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNTIL HIS DEATH last September, few people outside South Africa had heard of Steve Biko. Their ignorance was understandable; the white minority government of his country had done its best to silence him, by restricting his movement and the circulation of his ideas, and by threatening him with detention. Finally, it silenced him in the most permanent way possible: he died on a jail cell floor, one more victim of a system that is as ruthless as it is racist...
...enemies use our names best when we are dead. Steven Biko is now said to have been working for racial equality. That is not all we want. We want the land to be given back to the indigenous people," Baqwa added...
WHEN DONALD WOODS, the government-banned former editor of one of South Africa's leading opposition papers and one of the country's most outspoken white liberals, fled the apartheid regime over Christmas, he did not know where he was going. Although he apparently finished his book on Steve Biko recently, he was not sure how he could continue to press for change from outside South Africa...
Thomson and Bok had originally offered the post to Woods for immediate residency shortly after his escape from South Africa on December 31 of last year. Thomson said, however, that Woods needed to stay in London to finish his book on Steven Biko, the leader of South Africa's black consciousness movement who died shortly after he was imprisoned last fall...
...some of whom were political activists like himself. One told him: "Go. You're the best one among us to talk to the [overseas] press." Woods had an additional reason for seeking exile; he was hard at work, in violation of the banning order, on a book about Biko, and was anxious to get it finished...