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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aina J Khan Community affairs correspondent

‘I nearly took my life’: Islington council training black barbers in mental health issues

black barbers with two customers at Fade Fabric Barbers
Mich Momodu, left, recently completed a training course run by Islington council. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Mitch Momodu remembers as though it were yesterday, the day his uncle took him to a Jamaican barber in Clapton more than 30 years ago, for an eagle fade haircut.

Bonding with elderly black men while sitting in the shop – an intergenerational safe space – inspired the barber who now runs Fade Fabric Barbers in Dalston, to pick up clippers himself in secondary school.

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