From an early age, Jeanmarie Kalonji has been concerned with the suffering of his fellow compatriots. He entered into activism through the “Ambitious Youth Group”, an organization he created to awaken the consciousness of pupils about their civic responsibility at school. In 2011, Jean-Marie led a youth NGO called Alliance pour l’Universalité des Droits Fondamentaux to educate the masses and popularize the laws of the land. During this same period, he founded Quatrième Voie so that Congolese and other African youth could rally together. From 2014 to 2016, Jean-Marie’s mobilising capacity earned him the title of “Youth National Coordinator” in the Canaan Missionary Church. In 2015, while former President of the Republic Joseph Kabila was holding on to power beyond his constitutional mandate, Jean-Marie intensified his community mobilization to resist the installation of another dictatorship in the Congo. Jean-Marie’s activism around this national question caught the attention of