Steven Biko Day | Naming the Days

Steven Biko (1946 – 1977) was born in a small South African city and educated at Anglican and Catholic colleges. Whereas in medical college, he joined the Nationwide Union of South African College students after which went on to discovered the South African Pupil Group in 1968. Biko’s political actions resulted in his being expelled from medical college.

After struggling underneath the repressive edicts of the federal government, he made plans for a medical clinic and commenced to unfold his imaginative and prescient of black consciousness, stressing much less dependence on white liberals and extra creativity and inspiration from blacks themselves. This emphasis result in Biko being “detained’ a number of occasions. His nonviolent quest for change tremendously expanded when he offered white newspaper editor Donald Woods with essential data and particulars of the human rights violations of the South African regime and its police power.

On August 1, 1977, Biko was taken into custody and located to be in violation of his banning order. A month later, on September 12, he died in jail after being tortured and crushed.

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Movies

Study extra of Biko’s life and dying by watching Cry Freedom which explores the connection between the black chief and Donald Woods. Richard Attenborough directs this drama that reveals how two males from totally different worlds are drawn collectively in a wrestle towards the racist regime of South Africa. Denzel Washington is charismatic because the soft-spoken chief Steven Biko, whose advocacy of black consciousness and nonviolence evokes his folks to new heights of vanity. Kevin Kline can also be good as his good friend and biographer.

Private Explorations

“It’s higher to die for an concept that may stay, than to stay for an concept that may die,” Steven Biko mentioned in considered one of his speeches. What concept has such a maintain on you proper now that you’d be prepared to make sacrifices to see it flourish? Much more radical, what concept or ultimate would you be prepared to die for?