This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko ...

This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko's attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko's ...

The South African police claimed that Steve Biko had gone on hunger strike and had starved himself to death. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Peter Jones, a fellow anti-Apartheid activist ...