Papa Mfumu’etoPapa Mfumu’eto.

Jaspe-Saphir Nkou-Ntoula was born in 1963 at Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is best known by his pseudonym, Papa Mfumu'Eto 1er ("the first"), which he adopted as a personal brand (along with honorific variations such as "le Grand-prêtre" or "l'Ambassadeur") as a comic book creator in Kinshasa. He studied painting and interior design at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Kinshasa) before in 1989 leading a small creative team, called Mpangala, in producing a variety of extremely popular, handmade and self-published comic books in Kinshasa. He is best known for the Revue Mfumu'eto which, like most of his work, is written in urban Lingala (Kinshasa's Lingua franca).