Lewis Machipisa obituary

Lewis Machipisa in the BBC’s African Service newsroom. Dedicated to journalism, he loved a good story Photograph: none

My friend Lewis Machipisa, who has died aged 52 after a short illness, was a Zimbabwean journalist who spent nearly two decades at the BBC World Service in London working as a producer and editor.

Lew, as colleagues knew him, started his career as a correspondent for Inter Press Service in Harare in 1993, before joining the BBC World Service’s Zimbabwe bureau.