The assembly in CAR was led by Barthélemy Boganda, a Catholic priest who also was known for his forthright statements in the French Assembly on the need for African emancipation.

As a cousin of the CAR President David Dacko and nephew of Dacko's predecessor Barthélémy Boganda, Bokassa was given the task of creating the new country's military.

This song, which has been the anthem since 1960, was written by Barthélémy Boganda ( words ), the first President of the Central African Republic, and Herbert Pepper, who also composed the melody for the Senegalese national anthem.

Dacko was named principal of Kouanga College in 1955 and became a supporter of independence leader Barthélémy Boganda, who was from the same Ngbaka ethnic group as Dacko.

When the first Council of Government of Ubangi-Shari was established that same year, Boganda named Dacko Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Water and Forests, in which position he served from May 14, 1957 until August 23, 1958.

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.

It was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, the first president of the autonomous territory of Oubangui-Chari, who believed that " France and Africa must march together.

Barthélemy Boganda ( 4 April 1910 – 29 March 1959 ) was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic.

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.

Boganda was born into a family of subsistence farmers, and was adopted and educated by Roman Catholic Church missionaries.

During World War II, Boganda served in a number of missions and after was persuaded by the Bishop of Bangui to enter politics.

During his early years, Boganda was adopted by Catholic missionaries.

After World War II, Boganda was urged by the Bishop of Bangui, Mgr Grandin, to complement his humanitarian and social works through political action.

The movement was more popular among villagers than among évolué townsmen, whom Boganda considered servile and to whom he applied the derogatory term " Mboundjou-Voko " (" Black-Whites ").

He received Boganda, by then head of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa and pushing for independence, in Paris in July 1958 and was in turn received at Brazzaville in August.

They were married on 13 June 1950, for which Boganda was expelled from the priesthood and cut off from the Catholic hierarchy's support.

On 29 March 1951, Boganda was sentenced to two months in prison following his arrest on 10 January for " endangering the peace " after intervening in a local market dispute ( the " Bokanga incident " in Lobaye ).

Boganda hesitated to appear in a village that was not one of his strongholds, but did so anyway and declared before the rioters that justice would be the same for blacks and whites.

Father Gabriel Herrau sent Boganda to the Catholic School of Betou and then to the school of the Saint Paul Mission at Bangui, where he completed his primary studies under Mgr Calloch, whom he would consider his spiritual father.

He played a crucial role at the beginning of internal autonomy ( 1956 – 1958 ), although the relatively conservative Boganda remained sympathetic to French interests and still did not advocate immediate independence.

Other attractions in Bangui include Boganda Museum and Bokassa Palace.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

Boganda ruled until his death in a plane crash on 29 March 1959.

* 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )

* March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )

During 1959, Dacko succeeded Boganda as the main leader of the country when Boganda died in a plane crash.

* United States of Latin Africa, a political entity proposed by Barthélemy Boganda for Central Africa.

* March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, the prime minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory ( the future Central African Republic ) dies when his plane explodes in mid-air over Boukpoyanga, killing all on board.

He attended mission schools in Gabon, Cameroon, and Mbamu, where he met Barthélemy Boganda, the future nationalist leader of Oubangui-Chari and the first president of the Central African Republic.

In 1958, after the French Fourth Republic began to consider granting independence to most of its African colonies, Boganda met with Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle to discuss terms for the independence of Oubangui-Chari.

De Gaulle accepted Boganda's terms, and on 1 December, Boganda declared the establishment of the Central African Republic.

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