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Boganda, Barthélemy

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Boganda, Barthélemy (1910–1959)

Central African Republic politician and founder of the republic. In 1949 he formed the Mouvement d'Evolution Sociale de l'Afrique Noire (MESAN) as a popular mass movement, and 1950–51 began a campaign to cause unrest in the territory. The Central African Republic (consisting of Ubangi-Shari) gained partial independence in 1958 with Boganda as head of the new government. He was killed in a mysterious air crash shortly before elections.

Born in Ubangi-Shari (part of French Equatorial Africa), he was adopted by Catholic missionaries and in 1938 ordained as a priest. Entering politics in 1946 he unsuccessfully attempted to set up rural cotton and transport cooperatives to break the expatriate monopoly.



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