Word: biko
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...anything as simple as political parties—he points out that the party he identifies with, the African National Congress, was banned at that time. Instead, his work focused on the human beings who were involved in politics. His series of drawings on the postmortem body of Stephen Biko serve as both a mournful elegy—“Elegy” is, in fact, the title of the piece—and an electrifying portrait of a secular martyr. Stopforth’s work is filled with this sort of synthesis—combining beautifully crafted pieces...
...DIED. DONALD WOODS, 67, outspoken white South African newspaper editor and apartheid foe whose friendship with black activist Steve Biko was depicted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady...