On September 6, 2022, Mandela Kaumba Mazanga defended her PhD dissertation at Brussels University. It was the completion of her joint PhD project between UGent and ULB as part of the KongoKing project. At the occasion of her PhD defense, BantuGent and CARAM co-organized a Meet the PhD Jury event with Prof. dr. Placide Mumbembele (IMNC-UNIKIN, Kinshasa), one of the jury members. He talked on the Congolese mask that was recently brought back to the DRC as part of the royal mission of