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Former Ilanga keyboard player and sound engineer Keith Farquharson announced the opening of Bridgenorth Studios, a state of the art studio in Harare last week. Farquharson has mixed and mastered some of Zimbabwe’s best musicians’ music including Oliver Mtukudzi, Jah Prayzah, Alexio Kawara and Chiwoniso Maraire.

The gig aims to reminisce about departed colleagues of the once star-studded Ilanga and to commemorate their lives.

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...