Dan Magaziner is an editorial board member of Africa Is a Country and professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977 (2010) and The Art of Life in South Africa (2016).
South Africa’s apartheid government murdered Steve Biko 43 years ago this month. But they couldn’t snuff out his political influence — the Black Consciousness leader remains a symbol of defiance against injustice and racial oppression.