![]() ![]() Separately, Google’s new “ Cultural Institute” collaborated with the Biko Foundation to put a “ Biko archive” online and accessible to people with an internet connection. ![]() ![]() This has been a big year for “Bikoists,” as the Johannesburg-based commentator Andile Mngxitama describes himself and his comrades. Two Biko biographies emerged-one, Steve Biko, is a short, Jacana Press/Ohio University Press pocket book by documentary filmmaker Lindy Wilson the other, Biko: A Biography, is a greatly anticipated tome by the former director of the Steve Biko Foundation, “ internationally respected political analyst and commentator” (in his publisher’s words) Xolela Mangcu. But since the Apartheid South African police murdered him two months shy of his 31st birthday, we the living are left once more to think, through Biko, about what could have been. Had he not died, Steve Biko would have amongst us, speaking for himself. ![]()
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