He sometimes claimed, for instance, to have left Wilberforce University over rows about the college's compulsory military training and at other times that he was expelled for organising a student strike against poor food.

ECONOMIST: The struggle for civil rights

Francess' work is currently on show the University of Hull, sponsored by WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation) University of Hull, Women with Cameras and the Black History Partnership.

BBC: The Freetown I see