The Biko legecy

Many people admire Steve Biko for what he has done not for what he was. I am saying this because sons and grandsons of the oppressors pretend to be feeling the same feeling we black people feel. Born into an Anglican family on the 18 December 1946, born six days before the Christmas day was a blessing to the black nation. I praise Biko because he was black and I am black, unlike most white people who pretend to like our heroes when commemorating them in gatherings to remember those who died in the apartheid period.

I wonder what Biko would have done when most of the black people he fought freedom for are following the generation of the people he fought against. Today black people are running away from their cultures and are faking white people, their accents, their way of addressing political views and even doing their rituals.

Steve Biko lived only for a short time but he is our historical icon and leader. I always wonder what changes Biko would have done to this becoming white South Africa, maybe he would be president or maybe he would be a retired president like the great Mandela or maybe he would have been a Minister of Education preaching that schools must use the student’s mother tongue for teaching and learning, but today most black people suffer learning due to the use of foreign languages.

Black people are leaders today but Biko is not here to witness the success he fought for, how I wish people rose from death, how I wish the next Biko emerges, how I wish our leaders could think black rather than thinking white.