Zimbabwe: Bantu Spaceship Remakes Zimbabwean Roots Pop

17th May 2023
[Afropop] Bantu Spaceship is a new act out of Harare, Zimbabwe, an Afro-futuristic project with deep ties in the past of the country's popular music. Producer Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza cut his teeth with the alternative hip-hop band The Monkey Nuts. He created Bantu Spaceship with Ndebele vocalist Ulenni Okandlovu. Within the duo's synth-driven flow, we get elements of mid-80s sungura and Chimurenga music, including an inspired remix of Robson Banda's darkly majestic song "Mhondoro," and some sweet riffs from sungu

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