By Staff Reporter
WINDHOEK
The Warehouse Theatre was bursting at its seams on Saturday night as hundreds of reggae lovers, Rastafarians, music lovers, musicians, revellers and the capital’s socialites packed one of Windhoek premier live music rendezvous to pay their last respect to world famous campaigner for justice, Lucky Dube.
Dube was gunned down in front of his children in Soweto in Johannesburg in South Arica last Thursday and was laid to rest on Saturday in his home town of Newcastle in the Kwazulu Natal Province.
Revellers danced away the night to tri-bute music, among them Lucky Dube songs, performed by the Mighty Dreads, Ngathu and formula band and the King Rasta band. Solo artists Steve Hanana, Panduleni, Atushe, Jackson, Omidi and Ambros were backed by bands while Sepi, Bomba Culture and Jewels performed solo with acoustic instruments. The evening also saw Lady Black and Jackson Kaujeua junior performing poetry.
“Namibia gave Lucky Dube a thunderous and electrifying send-off fit for a legend. The artists gave a world-class show, the audience was phenomenal. It was as if Lucky Dube himself was on stage. It was a night to remember,” Sampa Kangwa-Wilkie, one of the facilitators of the programme on the night summed it all up.