She attended elementary school in Belgium, where her father was assigned, and became a fan of Bob et Bobette, a comic series created by Willy Vandersteen.

"[3] Some of this work was published under a pseudonym, and many readers assumed she was a man, which protected her when authorities on one occasion came to the newspaper office to pressure the artists not to draw.

[1] In 2001, she contributed to a collection of work by African authors, À l'ombre du baobab, in which she focused on the lives of street children.

[4][3] Concerned about increasing backlash to her caricatures after the government discovered her identity, Mukuna left her country in 2002 and settled in France.

[2][3] She also contributed to the Italian magazine Linus, in collaboration with the writer Christophe Ngalle Edimo, and participated in the exhibition Matite africane.