num_pages: 418
description: Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.
language: English
title: Biko
titlecomplete: Biko
characters: Steve Biko, Donald Woods
genres: Historical, History, South Africa, Biography Memoir, World History, Africa, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1399
places: South Africa
publisher: Holt Paperbacks