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Steve Biko

1946 - 1977

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Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk. Raised in a poor Xhosa family, Biko grew up in Ginsberg township in the Eastern Cape. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Biko is the 131st most popular social activist, the 29th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 24th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Social Activist.

Steve Biko was a black South African activist who was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement. He was a student leader and an anti-apartheid activist who was killed by the South African police in 1977.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Steve Biko ranks 131 out of 840. Before him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, William Luther Pierce, Susan B. Anthony, Georgy Gapon, Kang Pan-sok, and Alexander Parvus. After him are Vasil Levski, Bugsy Siegel, Hans Scholl, Stokely Carmichael, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and Emilie Schindler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Steve Biko ranks 106. Before him are Daniel Libeskind, Frank Marshall, Lasse Hallström, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Jochen Mass, and John Paul Jones. After him are Philip Pullman, John Heard, Jean Todt, Robert Reich, Stan Smith, and Howard Shore. Among people deceased in 1977, Steve Biko ranks 36. Before him are James Jones, Ali Shariati, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alexander Luria, Peter Finch, and Modibo Keïta. After him are Sergey Ilyushin, Groucho Marx, Francis Gary Powers, Gary Gilmore, John Dickson Carr, and Abdel Halim Hafez.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Steve Biko ranks 29 out of 454. Before him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Sydney Brenner (1927), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Paul Kruger (1825), and Jody Scheckter (1950). After him are Navi Pillay (1941), Charlize Theron (1975), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Angelique Rockas (1951), and Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Steve Biko ranks 2. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918). After him are Frances Ames (1920), Evelyn Mase (1922), Ted Grant (1913), Bram Fischer (1908), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Ramdas Gandhi (1897), Denis Goldberg (1933), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Beyers Naudé (1915), and Lillian Ngoyi (1911).

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