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Biko - Cry Freedom

Name: Biko - Cry Freedom
Author: Donald Woods
ISBN: 9781429936385

by Donald Woods

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Overview

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.

About the Author, Donald Woods

Donald Woods was a South-African born journalist who founded and edited The Daily Dispatch, which he used as a vehicle to attack South Africa's apartheid establishment. He was exiled to London where he remained until his death from cancer in 2001.