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Steve Biko (Stir It Up) - A Tribe Called Quest [3:11 | Jazz Rap]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15075278

The first track off of Tribe’s critically acclaimed Midnight Marauders, where the group introduces themselves and their uplifting lyrics. Also, the song is named after revolutionary anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, notable in the anti-colonialism and anti-oppression community worldwide.

https://genius.com/A-tribe-called-quest-steve-biko-stir-it-up-lyrics

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  • Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk. Raised in a poor Xhosa family, Biko grew up in Ginsberg township in the Eastern Cape. In 1966, he began studying medicine at the University of Natal, where he joined the National Union of South African Students. Strongly opposed to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white-minority rule in South Africa, Biko was frustrated that NUSAS and other anti-apartheid groups were dominated by white liberals, rather than by the blacks who were most affected by apartheid. He believed that well-intentioned white liberals failed to comprehend the black experience and often acted in a paternalistic manner.