The choir starts in Milan (Italy), after having shared some volunteering experiences especially through the Africa Oggi workcamps in Africa and South America.

In the early ’90 about ten of us committed themselves by preparing the hymns for the usual Africa Oggi meeting’s Holy Mass. This had us to try to make ourselves a "virtual bridge" between the communities of Africa/South America and the italian ones.
The hymn in a foreigner language was for us also a kind of another “instrument” to live one’s spirituality in a new way and to let people enjoy the Holy Mass in a different way.

One day, a couple of friends asked this band to perform at their wedding mass , (Monza 3 september 1993)..and we did it !
After a couple of weddings some parishes asked us to perform at one of their Sunday Holy Mass.
We thought that it would have been a good idea to share this songs with other communities and to give eventual offers received to some solidarity projects.
From the middle of 1996 about the choir goes by the name of Bandeko.

Since that time, more and more dates were demanded even for different contests: people’s celebrations, baptisms, missionary’s days, marches for peace, missionary’s anniversaries, and so on.

So far, with simplicity, we use to have one practice every week to get these hymns as better as we can, and to learn some more...