He served as Minister of Interior of Luluabourg Province and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Emery Wafwana was born in 1918 in the Luluabourg territory, Belgian Congo to a Lulua family.
[2] He worked as a merchant and served as president of the Union des Paysans et Ruraux Progressistes—an organisation affiliated with the Parti National du Progrès[1]—and was a leading member of the Union National Congolaise (UNC).
[1] He has been among the lulua leaders who signed an agreement with the Belgian government in an attempt to settle the Lulua-Luba tribal conflict.
Emery Wafuana also was a major figure of Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social UDPS (now ruling the country) which has been created by Etienne Tshisekedi and twelve others members of deputies Chamber during the reign of Mobutu.