Green Mamba Band founder Collen Mukonka dies

Collen Mukonka

Green Mamba Band founder and leader Collen Mukonka is dead.

Mukonka has died at the age of 40.

He founded the Band in the early 2000s and by 2005 it had become prominent with the exposure by Chikuni Radio which initiated an annual music festival to promote local music.

Green Mamba Band became the second most popular band in Southern province after Mashombe Blue Jeans using home made instruments.

“His type of music defined the restoration of cultural heritage in Southern Province having done so many great hits with home made musical instruments putting a flavor,” recalls Matongo Kanenga Maumbi who worked at Chikuni Radio at the time. “In my early years at Chikuni Radio, I engaged on a number of thematic songs for social change and he was always up to the task. The Music lives on. Busiku Bwanduuma, Lufwu Kubula Nsoni mpoona kasimpe Kufwa Nkoona.”