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Remembering Steve Biko: anti-apartheid campaigner and icon of liberation

Dr Derek Hook discusses his new biography of anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in our latest podcast

Dr Derek Hook discusses his new biography of anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in the latest episode in the Birkbeck Voices series. He explains the significance of Biko’s anti-apartheid campaign and his death in police custody.

Biko – leader of the Black Consciousness Movement – was one of the key figures in the liberation struggle in South Africa. The radical student leader arguably rivalled the importance of Nelson Mandela during the 1960s and 1970s.

In this podcast, Dr Hook, of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychosocial Studies, also explains his own dilemma about writing the book from his perspective as a white South African. He explains how the process of writing the book became an intellectual and historical project, rather than a political attempt to represent the views of Biko.

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