[1] He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to parents from Angola, with his father spending time imprisoned at Stanleyville during the Simba rebellion.
He followed up in 2003 with Un Train pour l'Est, which was the winner of the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the Salon du livre de Toronto.
[4] He published the novels Une petite saison au Congo in 2010[5] and Il ne s'est presque rien passé ce jour-là in 2015.
[7] The novel was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, French in 2020;[8] writer Téa Mutonji, a former student of his, was a nominee in the English category in the same year.
[4] He teaches French literature at the École secondaire catholique Saint-Charles-Garnier in Whitby, Ontario,[1] and has been a host on the Greater Toronto Area's francophone community radio station CHOQ-FM.