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His 1980 performance in Zimbabwe is still being talked about even by those who were not born at the time. Those who attended the concert are now in their fifties or older.

Transcript: In conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson Paul Gilroy: Hello, Im Paul Gilroy, Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at University College London. Im joined today by Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet and activist; somebody whose voice has been absolutely fundamental to presenting and to interpreting the consciousness of Black people in this country for many, many decades now. In the vernacular philosophical language of the 20th century Black freedom movement, to which Linton’s work a...

When Zimbabwe’s popular culture historians sit down one day to determine the biggest influences on the Zimdancehall reggae subgenre, it will be difficult to discount the contribution of three figures: reggae legend Bob Marley, chimurenga maestro Thomas Mapfumo and Dennis Wilson, the Black British telecommunications engineer-turned-radio deejay who died in Harare on 6 January at the age of 66.  The story of how Marley, the key figure in that triumvirate, ended up in Zimbabwe is well documente...