NATTY DUB IT INNA ZIMBABWE!

Two Zimbabwean businessmen, nightclub owner
Job Kadengu and Gordon Muchanyuka, wanted a
big name to serenade the new Zimbabwe at
midnight on April 17, 1980. Kadengu and
Muchanyuka agreed Bob Marley was their man.

The two flew to Kingston, Jamaica, to invite
Marley, just weeks before independence day.
“Chris Blackwell, his manager at the time, was
against this tour, but Marley, who had been
following events in Zimbabwe, decided he would
go,” says Fred Zindi, now a professor at the
University of Zimbabwe then, one of the Marley
dreamers.

“He hired a PA system in London and
paid for his freight to Zimbabwe at his own
expense.” Marley had inspired Zimbabwe.
“During the years of Chimurenga (chiShona for
uprising), Bob Marley’s music had been adopted
by the guerrilla forces of the Patriotic Front;
indeed, there were stories of ZANLA troops
playing Marley cassettes in the bush,” says Zindi.

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