Kabinda was one of the painters that emerged from the "le Hangar" art workshop founded by Pierre Romain-Desfossés in 1946 in Elisabethville, the Belgian Congo.  According to an interview with him that was conducted in 1973 by Johannes Fabian, of the University of Amsterdam, Kabinda was born in 1927 in the village of Kinda, in the Luba region of the Congo.  His parents were of the Ndembu ethnic group.