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[[File:backStreetBugle1978-01no.4p.7 Uhuru DonationList 600px.png|frame|January 1978: In response to controversy over rising prices at Uhuru, a list of good causes supported by the shop was published in the Backstreet Bugle, No. 3, p.10. Courtesy Backstreet Bugle Collective.]]
[[File:backStreetBugle1977-12no.1 womensCentre 600px.png|frame|December 1977: This article in the Backstreet Bugle reports on the key role of no. 35 Cowley Road as an organizing hub in the active feminist movement of the 1970s. (The Womens Centre opened in nearby Bullingdon Road.) Issue No.1. Courtesy Backstreet Bugle Collective.]]
This was the Uhuru wholefoods co-op, before it moved across the road to its current location. The shop unit has now been demolished, and large cherry trees now grow on the spot shown in the photo. John Clarke (on right in photo) used a windfall to found Uhuru, but gave over control to the Uhuru Collective. It was a cafe and a shop for 3rd world crafts. The wholefood sales had been a buyer's co-op in Wellington Square since the late 1960s, it was passed on to Uhuru. A photo from 1974 can be [https://www.oxforduniversityimages.com/results.asp?image=OHC002711-01&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=2 seen here.]