Elebe ma Ekonzo followed secondary education at Saint Joseph College in Léopoldville, in 1952.

The same year, he became a journalist at the Courrier d'Afrique [nl], before founding his own magazine called Le Congo indépendant in Stanleyville in 1959.

[4] At the time of independence, Elebe ma Ekonzo became an adviser in the cabinet of the Minister of Economic Coordination and Planning, Aloïs Kabangi.

[5] On the occasion of the publication of Jules Chomé's anti-Mobutist book L'ascension de Mobutu in Belgium in 1974, Elebe ma Ekonzo was recalled for consultations.

[7] From 1975 to 1977, he became the Director of AZAP once again, before being appointed to the Political Bureau of the state party Popular Movement of the Revolution (Mouvement populaire de la révolution, MPR).