Learn more about Steve Biko

Visitors to the blog are encouraged to research Steve Biko on their own. Links to useful pages have been inserted and can simply be clicked on and it will open the relevant page.

The reason for this self-exploration is that no first-hand information could be found in Fingo Village about Steve Biko. Any information found on this blog would therefore be taken from foreign sources. This is not the ideal or the objective of a public history project. There is an abundance of information available on the life and work of Steve Biko. There is also the great 1987 film, Cry Freedom, about the life of Steve Biko.

Readers, or rather public history explorers, will find that doing their own investigation about Steve Biko will allow for a broader and deeper understanding about the driving forces behind his political aspirations and how he came to be the symbol of the Black Consciousness Movement. Steve Biko's legacy lives on today. His legacy is most noticeable on the Rhodes University campus throught the SASCO (South African Students Congress) society. Steve Biko was one of the founders of SASCO.

We want to encourage explorers to share any interesting things that they have learnt about Steve Biko on the blog. This can be done by posting comments or by contacting the producers of the blog (an email address can be found on the blog) and we will upload any information that readers of this blog want to share about the life and work of Steve Biko, or how they were personally influenced or inspired by him.

It is perhaps important to mention at this point that the purpose of a blog is for it to function as a journal, where regular postings can be made about events or thoughts or ideas. A blog is something that can be updated as frequently as any one group or individual chooses to update it.

As previously mentioned, this year (2007) marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Biko and special events will be held to commemorate his life. This will probably take place in Fingo Village and on the Rhodes campus. The event will hopefully be covered in this blog.