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Stephen Biko

Stephen Biko
South African political leader Stephen Biko was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement in the late 1960s. He became a martyr for black nationalism in 1977 after he was arrested by the white-minority government, was beaten, and later died in prison.
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