Fifi Mukuna

Fifi Mukuna (born 1968) is a Congolese cartoonist and caricaturist.

Biography Fifi Mukuna was born in Kinshasa in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1968. Her father was a diplomat. 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. She became interested in drawing, and on her return to Zaire she studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa in 1989.

After graduating, Mukuna began contributing political caricatures to various newspapers and magazines including Le Palmarès, Le Phare, and Le Grognon, working closely with popular Congolese artists and graphic designers. 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. as well as three other collections: Une journée dans la vie d'un africain d'Afrique, Là-bas ... Na poto, and New Arrivals. She published her first solo graphic novel, Kisi le Collier, in 2013.

Beyond producing her own work, Mukuna teaches, including at the Higher Regional School of Visual Art in Tourcoing. She is also a cultural ambassador for the Alliance Française and the Red Cross.