Biko

It's time to remember a great man.
Download the song. Enjoy it. And get together to fight injustice everywhere!

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now

- Peter Gabriel -

I was looking through the index of Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom last week for references to Biko (one of our reading groups has chosen him as the next topic). Do you know how many times he appears there? I'll give you a clue: it's a surprisingly...round figure.

I thought you said Bilko.

Biko is a seminal figure of Black liberation, but there's an equally interesting person who tends to get neglected in comparison:

YouTube

Originally posted by Amaurote
Biko is a seminal figure of Black liberation, but there's an equally interesting person who tends to get neglected in comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGo6IU4o1PI

Rose Lawrence

If you miss me at the back of the bus
You can't find me nowhere
Oh come on over to the front of the bus
Because I'll be riding up there
I'll be riding up there, I'll be riding up there
Come on over to the front of the bus
Because I'll be riding up there

If you miss me on the picket line
You can't find me nowhere
Come on over to the city jail
Because I'll be rooming over there
I'll be rooming over there
I'll be rooming over there oh
Come on over to the city jail
Because I'll be rooming over there

If you miss me at the Mississippi river
You can't find me nowhere
Come on over to the swimming pool
Because I'll be swimming over there
I'll be swimming over there, over there
I'll be swimming right there
Come on over to the swimming pool
Because I'll be swimming over there

If you miss me in the cotton fields
You can't find me nowhere
Come on over to the voting booth
Because I'll be a voting right there
I'll be voting right there, right there
I'll be voting right there
Well come on over to the voting booth
Because I'll be voting right there

- Pete Seeger -