Leesgids Zuid-Afrika: Verhalen uit en over Zuid-Afrika

by Steve Biko, Connie Braam, Adriaan van Dis

De Leesgids Zuid-Afrika bevat verhalen van Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijvers en reisverhalen over Zuid-Afrika van reizigers die het land bezochtten. Verhalen en gedichten van J.M. Coetzee, Antjie Krog, Zoe Wicomb, Ingrid Jonker, Nadine Gordimer, Ellen Kuzwayo, Etienne Leroux, Marita van der Vyver, Tom Lanoye, Henk van Woerden en vele anderen.

335 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Stephen Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population.

While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower black people, and he was famous for his slogan "black is beautiful", which he described as meaning: "man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being".

Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement.