Stephen Bantu Biko

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Term Paper Title	Stephen Bantu Biko
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Stephen Bantu Biko

Stephen Bantu Biko

     Stephen Biko is known internationally as the founder of the South
African Students' Organization (SASO), and a leading force in the South Africa
Black Consciousness movement.  He fought against the separation between black
and whites, called apartheid (the Afrikaans term for separateness).  His
childhood experiences and character, lead him to became a powerful leader.
     Steve Biko was born on December 18, 1946, in King William's Town, South
Africa.  He father was a clerk and his mother was a housemaid.  Following the
Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Biko was just 17 years old when he became a
political activist.  He started to become active when he got expelled from
Lovedale High School and his brother was arrested in a nationwide police
crackdown on political activists.  He ended up graduating in 1966 at a boarding
school in Natal named St. Francis College.
     By then, his mind and character were those of a leader.  He had a quick
brain with huge mental force and ideas.  He had the gift to cut through to the
core of a problem and find the best solution.  "His mind was a tool to chisel
out sense and truth and order"  (Woods 78).  Biko was thoughtful, sensitive and
had a good sense of humor.  He was motivated by the search for good and truth.
At the University of Natal Medicine in 1968, he became involved in the
multiracial National Union of South African Students.  He was known by peers and
adults as a student leader  This organization fought for black rights, except he
claimed that, "the white [were] doing all the talking and the blacks listening"
(Biko 210).  Biko wanted the blacks to have as much say and participation as the
whites, so in 1968 he became the co-founder and first president of he South
African Students' Organization (SASO).  This was an all-black organization,
which aim was to raise self respect and reliance to all blacks.  He said, "Black
liberation starts with psychological self reliance.  This can only be initiated
in isolation from allies whose good intentions are an obstacle to such self-
realization"  (Woods 63).  This organization helped the foundation of another
movement and convention, known as the South African Students' Movement, and the
Black Peoples' Convention (BPC).  This movement also became known as the Black
Consciousness Movement.  The movements he founded were headed towards students,
because they were the ones that might change their minds, unlike the older
people, who have alrea...

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