First of all, what is a doodle? A doodle is an artistic adaptation of Google logo done to celebrate events including holidays, anniversaries of current events. In honor of Steve Biko on Sunday Google commemorated his achievements with a Goodle doddle which marks the 70 th birthday of the anti-apartheid activist.
This image appeared on Sunday on the Google search engine page.
The initiative commemorated what the anti-apartheid activist and co-founder of Black Consciousness, Steve Biko achieved. Not many South Africans feature as doodle on Google but Biko joins the few , the writer, novelist and political activist Nadine Gordimer and Nelson Mandela.
Biko fought for ‘Black is Beautiful’ and spread the message across South Africa at the height of apartheid in the 1960s and 70s. Along with this, he was a co-founder of the Black Consciousness movement, which denounced apartheid policies and encouraged black people to talk pride in their racial identities and cultural heritages.
Google quote ‘Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time’.
Main image from African Heritage
