Shujaa Moshesh
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Shujaa Moshesh (born Wesley Dick) was a
Black British Black British people or Black Britons"Black Briton, N." ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Oxford UP. December 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1136579918. are a multi-ethnic group of British people of List of ethnic groups of Africa, Sub-Saharan ...
political activist who was imprisoned after the Spaghetti House siege. While in prison he became a prisoners' rights activist. He also wrote poetry. Moshesh became involved in
Black Power Black power is a list of political slogans, political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. It is primarily, but not exclusively, used in the United States b ...
activism in the early 1970s. He attended meetings of the
Black Panthers The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California ...
, the Fasimbas, the Black Liberation Front (BLF), and the
Black Unity and Freedom Party In politics and history the Black Unity and Freedom Party (BUFP) (c. 1970 – 1999) was a political organisation that was part of Britain's Black Power and Far left, Radical left movements. Birth The BUFP held its first congress in London on 2 ...
. Moshesh was sentenced to 18 years in jail on 30 June 1976, and was first eligible for release on 19 July 1988, before his actual release in August of that year.


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