Biko

First edition, 1978. 288pp. + [xvi] plates. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s brown cloth boards with Biko’s face blind stamped to front and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine. *** Donald Wood’s celebrated account of Steve Biko, South Africa’s leading Black Consciousness spokesman who was brutally murdered while in police custody. Woods risked his life writing about the murder and had to flee the country – an escape that in itself captured the imagination of the world. The book was the basis for the film Cry Freedom, starring Denzel Washington as Biko and Kevin Kline as Donald Woods.