19/07/2025
April 1980 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
On April 19, 1980, Reggae icon Bob Marley and the Wailers performed in front of 100,000 fans at the Rufaro Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe. A day earlier, on April 18th, he sang “Zimbabwe” at Zimbabwe's 1st independence festival.
Bob marley to the crowd in 1980: How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah. To see the unification of all Afrikans”. Afrika Unite.
Bob Marley also travelled to African countries like Ethiopia 🇪🇹 , Kenya 🇰🇪 and Gabon 🇬🇦
In 2015, a statue of Marley was installed in Addis Ababa for Bob’s 70th birthday celebration. In 2005, Rita Marley, Bob Marley’s widow announced she would be moving his body to be reburied in Ethiopia, though that never happened; the famous singer still rests in tomb in his home in Nine Mile, Jamaica. Marley’s music, meanwhile, continues to inspire the world from the Americas to Afrika—even if many folks are only listening to the melodies.
