Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Kimba ya fara aikin jarida a 1954 lokacin da ya fara rubutawa don "Essor du Congo" a Élisabethville, jarida mai ra'ayin mazan jiya, mai goyon bayan mulkin mallaka wanda ya rufe al'amuran Katangese. Daga baya a wannan shekarar ya zama babban editan littafin, kuma ya rike mukamin har zuwa 1960. A cikin 1960 ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban Kungiyar 'Yan Jaridun Congo. Ya auri wata mace, Bernadette, kuma yana da 'ya'ya hudu tare da ita. A shekara ta 1958 Kimba ya halarci
Expo 58 a ƙasar Belgium. A shekara mai zuwa ya yi balaguro zuwa ƙasashen waje, ya ziyarci Jamus ta Yamma, Arewacin Rhodesia, Kudancin Rhodesia, Senegal, Amurka, Kanada, Faransa, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italiya, Girka, Ivory Coast, Kamaru ta Faransa, Congo ta Faransa, Chadi, da Madagascar ta Faransa.