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* 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )
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1959 and Barthélemy
While the country was still a French colony, Goumba was Vice-President of the Government Council from May 1957 to July 1958, President of the Government Council from July 1958 to December 1958, and was briefly Prime Minister in an acting capacity in April 1959, following the death of Barthélemy Boganda in a plane crash.
Barthélemy Boganda ( 4 April 1910 – 29 March 1959 ) was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic.
1959 and Boganda
Boganda ruled until his death in a plane crash on 29 March 1959.
During 1959, Dacko succeeded Boganda as the main leader of the country when Boganda died in a plane crash.
1959 and African
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Turnbull became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965, after he moved to New York City to become curator in charge of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1959.
For 18 months from January 1, 1959 there was political uncertainty and African national feeling became more apparent with the effect that the Belgian government resolved on independence for the colony in June 1960.
In 1959 the new republics formed an interim association called the Union of Central African Republics, before becoming fully independent in August 1960.
The solitary South African re-appeared to challenge Scrooge to a rematch in The Money Champ, first published in September 1959.
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He was imprisoned in Gwelo ( now Gweru ) in Southern Rhodesia, and leadership of the Malawi Congress Party ( the Nyasaland African Congress under a new name ) was temporarily assumed by Orton Chirwa, who was released from prison in August 1959.
He finished his studies in Paris in 1959, a year before the independence of the Central African Republic.
Patassé joined the Central African civil service in 1959, shortly before independence.
Bowles was a pioneer in the field of North African ethnomusicology with his field recordings from 1959 to 1961 of traditional Moroccan music for the US Library of Congress.
In 1959, when Deerfield officials learned that a developer building a neighborhood of large new homes planned to make houses available to African Americans, they issued a stop-work order.
In 1959, American pianist John Mehegan organized a recording session using many of the most prominent South African jazz musicians, resoluting in the first two African jazz LPs.
In 1959, Arthur Morris Jones published his landmark work Studies in African Music, in which he identified the triple-pulse clave as the guide pattern for many musics from ethnic groups across Africa.
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The Conseil de l ' Entente (" Council of Accord " or " Council of Understanding ") is a West African regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) and Dahomey ( now Benin ), and joined in 1966 by Togo.
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