Xolela mangcu biko biography of alberta
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Biko biography required skilful balancing
Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu received the Meritorious Book Award for his telling of Steve Biko's story in Biko: A Biography.
He is not only Biko's biographer; he knew Biko personally as both of them grew up in the township Ginsberg, outside King William's Town in the Eastern Cape.
Xolela mangcu biko biography of alberta
Mangcu opens up to Abigail Calata about what motivated him to write the book as well as the challenges he faced whilst writing it.
AC: How did the idea to write a biography on Steve Biko come about?
XM: Biko has always been very present in my imagination and I had always been dissatisfied with the way he had been written out of history.
The fact that there was no biography of him irked me.
I knew him as a boy, so I felt this obligation to tell his story. Being at a university allowed me the time to go deeper into not only Biko's story, but also the intellectual history of his community – in Ginsberg and the Eastern Cape.
I locate Biko in that long history