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Barthélemy Boganda

1910–1959 · 20th century

Barthélemy Boganda was the first Catholic priest from Ubangi-Shari and the leading nationalist politician of French Equatorial Africa. Elected to the French National Assembly in 1946, he founded the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa and in December 1958 proclaimed the Central African Republic, becoming its first prime minister. He died in a plane crash in March 1959, before full independence in 1960.

Barthélemy Boganda
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