Biography

Culture Spears is a Tswana traditional music group based in Botswana. It is also a traditional dance group. 

Culture Spears have released four albums: Korone, Kulenyane, Khudu, Keorapetse and Kulanche. Kulenyane sold over 60,000 units within three months and won several awards.

This hit album was produced by Zimbabwean producer Johane Maseko (famously called Joe Maseko) at his House of the Rising Sound in Gwabalanda township, Bulawayo (Zimbabwe's second capital). Culture Spears would maintain an on and off relationship with Maseko (now deceased ; November 2018).

The group played at prominent events in and outside Botswana, winning numerous awards and becoming one of the most successful groups in the country's local music industry.

Culture Spears was given the Presidential Award of Merit. In 2008 they were invited by the South African president Thabo Mbeki to perform for him. The group founded its own recording studio, Kulenyane Studios, named after their second album, reportedly the leading Culture Spears project in terms of sales. The studio is headquartered in Culture Spears' mansion in the heart of Gaborone.