[1] TKM was born in Élisabethville (modern-day Lubumbashi), in the south of the Belgian Congo, in 1947.
[2] TKM was one of the leading figures of "African genre painting" which had emerged in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s and which integrated both European and Congolese styles and techniques.
[2] TKM's best-known paintings form part of a series of 101 works commissioned by the German anthropologist Johannes Fabian to illustrate Congolese history as it appeared in national collective memory.
The series was produced between 1974 and 1976 and forms the body of TKM's work and was used as the basis for an academic collaboration between the two.
[3] Among the scenes depicted by TKM was the Elisabethville Massacre of 1941, Patrice Lumumba's independence speech of 30 June 1960, the introduction of culture obligatoire farming, and the trial of the religious leader Simon Kimbangu by the Belgian colonial authorities in 1921.