Home > People > History > Southern African History: Biographies

Research topic:Steve Biko

Find more facts and information on our topic page about Steve Biko

Steve Biko

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Steve Biko (Steven Biko) , 1946-77, South African political leader. A medical student, he founded (1969) a black student organization and developed a national "black consciousness" movement to combat racism and apartheid policies. Arrested in 1977, he died in police custody, prompting international protests and a UN arms embargo. In 1997 five former policemen admitted killing him.

Author not available, BIKO, STEVE., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008


Find more facts and information related to the .
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Because of Biko
; On 12 September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in a police cell less...in the air and cried, "I remember Steve Biko." But my priorities in 1977 were...understand how far apart I was from Steve Biko then, you have to remember how cocooned... Read more
Biko family in housing date; City team celebrates its 20th birthday.(Features)
; ...Reporter THE widow of human rights leader Steve Biko will help a Liverpool housing association celebrate its anniversary this week. The Steve Biko Housing Association in Toxteth marks...Nkos-inathi, who is chief executive of the Steve Biko Foundation, and Samora, together with... Read more
Biko's widow joins city celebrations.(News)
; ...MURTAGH THE WIDOW of human rights leader Steve Biko spent the day in Liverpool yesterday...birthday celebrations. The Toxteth-based Steve Biko Housing Association marked its 20th birthday...and Nkosinathi, chief executive of the Steve Biko Foundation, and Obenewa Amponsah, director... Read more
Biko's Ginsberg going backwards, not forwards; Home town of the Black Consciousness legend still struggles to overcome legacy of apartheid.(News)
; ...legacy of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - who died after Port Elizabeth security...recalls the organisations and projects Steve Biko tried to set up. Her creche is the only...has been here since 1985, and although Steve Biko and family members are remembered for... Read more
CITY PAIR HONOURED; YEARS OF SERVICE TO BLACK PEOPLE.(News)
; ...Higgins MBE, both on the board of the Steve Biko housing association, won accolades from...the homes have been brought back under Steve Biko control. Mr Higgins, 73, a founding tenant...Concern and a luncheon club in Toxteth. Steve Biko HA is one of only two locally-based black... Read more
Son finds fitting manner to keep memory alive.(News)
; BYLINE: BONILE NGQIYAZA Steve Biko's eldest son, Nkosinathi, was barely...his late 30s and as chairman of the Steve Biko Foundation, Biko jun has helped to...Nkosinathi said the seed for the Steve Biko Foundation germinated at the 20th... Read more
South African activist Woods is dead.(News)
; ...South Africa in 1977 after his friend Steve Biko was killed in police custody and his...Woods opposite Denzel Washington as Steve Biko in Cry Freedom, which chronicled the...this year to attend the wedding of Steve Biko's son Nkosinathi. Read more
NBUF Remembers Steven Biko in Chicago
; ...in their December 18, 1977 tribute to Steve Biko that "On June 16, 1976 after a five-week...students were inspired by the leadership of Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement...the Soweto rebellion without discussing Steve Biko. Soweto stand fro Southwest township... Read more
Steve Biko Centre opens.(News)
; THE Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, linked to the Faculty...Professor Ames Dhai, Director of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics. More importantly...day-to-day interactions with patients. Steve Biko's murder in detention, compounded by... Read more
Steve Biko's Death Investigated
; Los Angeles Sentinel 02-19-1997 Steve Biko's Death Investigated. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Investigators...studying another possible cause of black consciousness leader Steve Biko's death in police detention two decades ago -- poisoning. Last... Read more

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Steve Biko
Steve Biko Steve Biko (1946-1977), a political activist and writer, is regarded as the father...Black Consciousness movement in the Union of South Africa. Stephen Bantu Biko (a. k. a. Bantu Stephen Biko) was born in King Williamstown, Cape Province... Read more
Biko, Steve
Biko, Steve ( Stephen) (1946–77) South African political activist. In 1969 Biko founded the South African Students Organization...curtailed his freedoms of speech and association. Biko died in police custody at Port Elizabeth and became... Read more
Biko, Steve
Biko, Steve (1946–77) South African civil rights activist and student leader. A medical student at the University of Natal, he was co-found...South Africa, police officers giving evidence before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997 continued to maintain that Biko's death was not murder. Read more
Biko, Steve
Biko, Steve ( Bantu Stephen) (b. 18 Dec. 1946, d. 12 Sept. 1977). South African political activist In 1965 he won a scholarship to study medicine... Read more
Washington, Denzel
Washington, Denzel (1954– ) US film actor. His first major film role was as Steve Biko, in the anti-apartheid film Cry Freedom (1987). Spike Lee chose him to play the leads in Mo' Better Blues (1990) and Malcolm X... Read more

Online videos

The Life and Death of Steve Biko (1977) Part 3 (Final)

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: