Musicians have carried his ideology forward – but what would he make of today’s politics?
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Nasty C, in his 2020 song where he raps about “spelling love with AMG”, having “a separate account for my shoes and weed” and “all designer sneakers on my doormat”, called himself the “new Steve Biko” because he’s so “pro-black card”. : “I’m on my Steven Biko while I’m stacking my Zim dollar zeros/ Just so I can write what I like for the people.”
“Biko’s influence is not only evident in the ideologies of ‘fallist’ movements, it has also become embedded in the physical spaces that universities occupy,” wrote Nombuso Mathibela and Simamkele Dlakavu inin 2016 as students raged in protest against residual colonial practices in South Africa’s institutions of higher learning. , Stogie T speaks of a South Africa which is run by politicians who have abandoned Biko and “did us in and got us out duty-free/ Got us on a losing streak”.
This in the context of a black government that has failed the black majority in so many spheres, especially when it comes to land redistribution.
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