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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Steve Biko

1946 - 1977

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Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve Biko has received more than 4,681,748 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Biko is the 143rd most popular social activist (down from 135th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Social Activist.

Steve Biko was a black South African activist who was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement. He was a student leader and an anti-apartheid activist who was killed by the South African police in 1977.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Steve Biko ranks 143 out of 538. Before him are Klaus Störtebeker, Mairead Maguire, Betty Ford, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Ishikawa Goemon, and Léon Jouhaux. After him are Bertha Pappenheim, Huda Sha'arawi, Judas of Galilee, Jacques Roux, Edward Snowden, and Margaret Sanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Steve Biko ranks 101. Before him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Ahmed Zewail, Keith Moon, John Heard, Pete Postlethwaite, and Stefania Sandrelli. After him are Marilyn vos Savant, Aziz Sancar, Brian Cox, Robert J. Shiller, Semion Mogilevich, and Janet Yellen. Among people deceased in 1977, Steve Biko ranks 40. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin, Sergey Ilyushin, Archibald Hill, Peter Finch, Olave Baden-Powell, and Stefania Turkewich. After him are Stephen Boyd, Abdel Halim Hafez, John Dickson Carr, Modibo Keïta, Oskar Morgenstern, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Steve Biko ranks 25 out of 374. Before him are P. W. Botha (1916), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Jody Scheckter (1950), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Sydney Brenner (1927), and Michael Levitt (1947). After him are Jan Smuts (1870), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Seymour Papert (1928), D. F. Malan (1874), Peter Abrahams (1919), and Abba Eban (1915).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Steve Biko ranks 2. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918). After him are Evelyn Mase (1922), Frances Ames (1920), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Ted Grant (1913), Beyers Naudé (1915), Bram Fischer (1908), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Kumi Naidoo (1965), and Nkosi Johnson (1989).

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