Makambo Nawezi lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for several years. He ran for election to the Montreal city council as an independent candidate in the 2001 municipal election and was defeated. In the late 2000s, he was a representative in Canada of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy founded by Congolese president Joseph Kabila."Le comité Pprd/Canada félicite la vice-ministre chargée des Congolais de l’étranger désormais voix officielle de la diaspora", digitalcongo.net, 13 February 2007, accessed 17 July 2011.
