This week’s #MinuteOfJoy features a colourised photo by @Waaqooyi of Mahmood Mattan chilling with some friends at a café in Cardiff in the 50s. (Thread)

Behind the vintage excellence of this colourisation, looms a darker moment in history where Mattan pictured (middle to the right) was a Somali seaman blamed and sentenced for a murder he had never committed, the last to be executed in the Cardiff Prison. (2/3)

Mattan was posthumously cleared of murder by the Court of Appeal in London in 1998, 46 years after his death. The elegance and memory of Mattan, revived by @Waaqooyi is a a beautiful snapshot of social life ‘back in the day’ (3/3)