Zimbabwe is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song had been released on the 1979 album Survival, and premiered at the Amandla Festival.
Marley wrote the song to support a public campaign against Rhodesia's white minority government, which ruled present Zimbabwe until 1980. Shortly after Robert Mugabe's ascension to power, the musician was invited to perform at the independence celebrations in Salisbury. His concert was briefly delayed while local security forces quelled instances of civil unrest in the city.
Zimbabwe was the only song from the Survival album that was regularly performed by Marley on his last Uprising Tour in 1980, other Survival songs having been dropped prior.
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