Volume 25, Number 10 · June 15, 1978
Martyr
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Biko
by Donald Woods
Paddington Press, 288 pp., $10.95
Many people hailed as martyrs, and almost all would-be martyrs, have been more or less crazy. Stephen Biko was as far from crazy as it is possible to be, and he neither wanted nor even expected martyrdom. He became a martyr nonetheless: one who bore witness, both through his life and through his death, to the faith and love that were in him.
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