The posters, created in Brixton with the activism group Advocacy Academy, were only intended to line the bedroom walls of Tekle and his mates, but the subversive advertising organisation Special Patrol Group spotted the posters online, loved the concept and jumped in to give them a much wider audience.
The Special Patrol Group put the posters up during a snow storm on Wednesday night, so that those behind the concept would see them on their graduation from the Advocacy Academy.
Special Patrol Group, which has previously run “vandal advertising” campaigns targeting police corruption, printed out 6ft versions of the posters and stealthily placed them in bus stop billboards around Brixton, south London.
The tagline on the Doctor Who poster reads: “If you’re surprised, it means you don’t see enough black people in major roles.