A white
newspaper editor (Kevin Kline) befriends South African Black political activist
Steve Biko (Denzel Washington.) When Biko is beaten to death by the police, the
editor writes a book exposing the government and he has to escape from the
country with his family to get it published.
Black South
Africans lost their rights ,and they were assigned to leave their territory.
Steve Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement, based on his philosophy
that political freedom could only be achieved if blacks stopped feeling
inferior to whites. This movie took plce in the middle of 1970s, when many
africans were in jail or exile. The government banned Biko in 1973, restricting
his movements and preventing him from being shown in public. In August, 1977 he
was taken into police custody and died several days later.
Sara Rifki
