French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted of Gabon,French Congo,Ubangi-Shari,and Chad. It existed from 1910 to 1958 and its administration was based in Brazzaville.
Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician,lawyer,essayist,historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946,he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical,Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978,he was elected to the Académie Française.
High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking,special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.
The French Union was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system,colloquially known as the "French Empire". It was de jure the end of the "indigenous" status of French subjects in colonial areas.
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 –the longest serving since Étienne François,duc de Choiseul under Louis XV –and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion,he was considered one of the historical Gaullists,and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999;his seat was taken over by Simone Veil.
David Dacko was a Central African politician who served as the first President of the Central African Republic from 14 August 1960 to 1 January 1966 and as the third President of the Central African Republic from 21 September 1979 to 1 September 1981. He also served as Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 1 May 1959 to 14 August 1960. After his second removal from power in a coup d'état led by General AndréKolingba,he pursued an active career as an opposition politician and presidential candidate with many loyal supporters;Dacko was an important political figure in the country for over 50 years.
Barthélemy Boganda was a Central African politician and independence activist. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence,during the period when the area,part of French Equatorial Africa,was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari. He served as the first Premier of the Central African Republic as an autonomous territory.
AndréGrenard Matswa was a Congolese Lari anti-colonial activist born near Manzakala-Kinkala in then Middle Congo,a rare influential figure in Congolese politics before independence in 1960. He inspired a messianic cult,Matswanism or Matsouanism,that emerged in the French Equatorial African capital,Brazzaville.
Dolisie,known as Loubomo between 1975 and 1991,is a city and a commune. It is the capital of Niari in the south western of the Republic of the Congo,the country's third largest city and an important commercial centre. The city lies on the eastern edge of the coastal rainforest and has a population of 117,920.
The French Community was the constitutional organization set up in 1958 between France and its remaining African colonies,then in the process of decolonization. It replaced the French Union,which had reorganized the colonial empire in 1946. While the Community remained formally in existence until 1995,when the French Parliament officially abolished it,it had effectively ceased to exist and function by the end of 1960,by which time all the African members had declared their independence and left it.
The United States of Latin Africa was the proposed union of Romance-language-speaking Central African countries envisioned by Barthélémy Boganda. Boganda first called for it in May 1957.
The Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa was a political party in the Central African Republic. In its original form,it was a nationalist quasi-religious party that sought to affirm black humanity and advocated for the independence of Ubangi-Shari,then a French colonial territory.
Jean Félix-Tchicaya was a Congolese politician in the French colony of Middle Congo. He was born in Libreville on November 9,1903,and was a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Loango.
Comitéde liaison de patronat de l'A.E.F. was an employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa (AEF). It had territorial branches in each of the four territories of AEF. COLPAEF was founded a few days after the introduction of the French Overseas Labour Code in 1953. The organization was affiliated to the Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF),the French National Employers Council. A Permanent Secretariat coordinated the activities of the four territorial branches of COLPAEF.
Emmanuel J. Damongo-Dadet was the first Congolese ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. He was born in Impfondo,at the time Congo was the Middle Congo,a colony that was ruled by France. In his early days,he was taught at Brazzaville and went on to become a teacher and director of École Urbaine at Dolisie. A renowned journalist,poet and novelist in his native country,he wrote Congolila, published in 1950,and Panorama Congolais in 1962.
RenéJules Maurice Malbrant was a French veterinarian and politician. He served as a member of the French National Assembly between 1946 and 1959.
Roger Léon Charles Guérillot was a French colonist of Ubangi-Shari who was involved in the process of independence by which it became the Central African Republic.
Matswanism is a political association that was founded in French Congo by AndréMatswa in the 1920s and evolved into a religious/political movement after the death of Matswa in 1942.
