Biko: The True Story of the Young South African Martyr and His Struggle to Raise Black Consciousness

Donald Woods

Apr 2011 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.

Ratings and reviews

I love how the writer draws you in being a part of the emotions he might have been feeling about the tortures our beloved fallen heroes had to suffer during apartheid, it's a beautifully articulated book.

You better handcuff me or chain me ,so I can't retaliate, if you beat me or you do rough staff that will make me to be impossible,and that will make me to think that you're police, but if you talk to me that will make me soft because I'll think that' you're human being.

The legend you seldom read about. try it, and rather you tell us how apartheid can be justified.

About the author

Donald Woods was a South-African born journalist who founded and edited The Daily Dispatch, which he used as a vehicle to attack South Africa's apartheid establishment. He was exiled to London where he remained until his death from cancer in 2001.