A live version of Peter Gabriel's tribute/lament to Bantu Stephen Biko, a South-African anti-apartheid activist who was arrested and beaten to death by Port Elizabeth state security officers in 1977.
"You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher."
- The last stanza of "Biko", 1980 Peter Gabriel.
Fitting for the times.
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