Battery Mobile Studio, Botswana

Linked to Battery Studios, London and as the name suggests, the "Battery Mobile" was the only mobile 24-track recording studio in Africa. In a partnership with Clive Calder's Jive Records and imported from the UK by Hugh Masekela in 1984, it was parked outside a venue called the Woodpecker Inn, Botswana (now a Lutheran church) along the bank of the Notwane River outside of Gaborone, Botswana. Active for most of that decade, the studio's close proximity to the border allowed many (black) South African artists to record there.