Shujaa Moshesh (born Wesley Dick) was a

Black British Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British citizens of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.Gadsby, Meredith (2006), ''Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival'', University of Missouri Press, pp. 76–7 ...

political activist who was imprisoned after the

Spaghetti House siege The Spaghetti House siege took place between 28 September and 3 October 1975. An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, went wrong and the police were quickly on the scene. The three robbers took the staff ...

. While in prison he became a prisoners' rights activist. He also wrote poetry. Moshesh became involved in Black Power activism in the early 1970s. He attended meetings of the

Black Panthers The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist and Black Power movement, black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. New ...

, the Fasimbas, the

Black Liberation Front Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have of ...

(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 Radical left movements. Birth The BUFP held its first congress in London on 20 July 197 ...

. 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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