Vital Bambanze was born on 21 July 1972 in Shore, Commune of Gitobe in Kirundo province, Burundi to a Batwa family.
[1] Bambanze joined the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Indigenous Fellowship Programme.
[1] Vital Bambanze was appointed to the Senate of Burundi as a representative of the Batwa Indigenous Peoples, serving from 2010 to 2015.
[1] He was appointed by the President of Burundi as Batwa Representative to the National Land Commission.
[5] As of 2024 he was deputy regional representative for the Great Lakes in the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC).