Bantu Steve Biko

Steve Biko: Black Consciousness In South Africa. New York: Random, 1978. Arnold, Millard W. Black viewpoint / editor: B.S. Biko. Durban : Spro-Cas Black Community. Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society.

Steve Biko: Black Consciousness In South Africa. New York: Random House, 1978. Edited by Millard Arnold Contains Biko's testimony during his trial on May 3, 1976.

I Write What I Like, edited by Aelred Stubbs. London : Bowerdean, 1978. [EDITED BY] AELRED STUBBS.

I Write What I Like: a selection of his writings. New ed. London: Bowerdean, 1978. Edited with a personal memoir by Aelred Stubbs C.R. Preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with a new introduction by Malusi and Thoko Mpumlwana.

I Write What I Like: selected writings, edited with a personal memoir by Aelred Stubbs ; preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu ; introduction by Malusi and Thoko Mpumlwana ; with a new foreword by Lewis R. Gordon. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

No Fears Expressed, edited by Millard W. Arnold. Johannesburg : Skotaville, 1987. Arnold, Millard W.

Millard Arnold (ed.). Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa. Random House: New York, 1979.

Millard Arnold (ed.). The Testimony of Steve Biko. Granada Publishing: London, 1979.

Hilda Bernstein. No. 46 – Steve Biko. IDAF: London, 1978.

Jon Blair and Norman Fenton. The Biko Inquest. Rex Collings: London, 1978.

Robin Malan. The Essential Steve Biko. Mayibuye Books: University of the Western Cape, Belville, 1977.

Mothobi Mutloaste (ed.). Reconstruction: 90 Years of Black Historical Literature. Ravan Press: Johannesburg, 1981.

B. Pityana, M. Ramphele, M. Mpumlwana and L. Wilson (eds.). Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness. David Philip: Cape Town, 1991.

Linda Price. Steve Biko. Maskew Miller Longman: Cape Town, 1992.

Mampela Ramphele. A Life. David Philip: Cape Town, 1995.

Donald Woods. Biko. Paddington Press: London, 1978.

Donald Woods. Biko (revised and updated). Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, 1978.

Biko: Breaking the Silence (52 mins)
(Director: Edwina Spicer; Producers: Mark Kaplan, Richard Wicksteed)
Made in Zimbabwe in 1987, 10 years after Biko's death.
The origins and legacy of black consciousness and Biko's role in the movement are explored.

Biko: Inquest (102 mins)
(C. Clarke, G. Evans for Channel 4 (UK): 1984)
A dramatisation by Jon Blair and Norman Fenton of the transcripts of the Biko inquest. Set in the inquest courtroom, it stars Albert Finney as Sydney Kentridge.

Biko: The Spirit Lives (67 mins)
(Terrence Francis for the BBC (1988))
Originally produced as a television programme in 1988 for the BBC. Broadcast as part of a series entitled “Unbanned”. This story of Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist killed in 1977, while in security police custody, is told by his contemporaries, family members and in archival footage of Biko himself. Preceded by comments from Terrence Francis who explains why and how the film was made.

Steve Bantu Biko: Beacon of Hope (53 mins)
(Vusi Dibakwane, written by Nkosinathi Biko, 1999)
Many people are brought together on this video to bear witness to Steve Biko’s dynamic life – Father, philosopher, writer, community worker, politician. It focusses on the man behind the figure through the eyes of people whose lives he touched.

Steve Biko: Journey of the Spirit (52 mins)
(Matsemela Manaka (South Africa): 1997)
Made to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death, this programme is not so much a biography as a tribute to the black consciousness leaders’ social, cultural and political legacy. It is structured around interviews with a number of people who knew him personally, as well as with persons influenced by his writings such as Don Mattera, Mathew Posa, Shini Moodley, Ben Khoapa, Saths Cooper, Lybon Mabaso, Glen Masokoane, Aggrey Klaaste, Charles Nkosi and Biko’s eldest son, Nkosinathi. Most of them refer to his emphasis and the need of black South Africans to develop a sense of self-esteem and reliance, and point out that his once revolutionary ideas are now generally accepted.

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