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Ubangi-Shari had a similar concession system as the Congo Free State and similar atrocities were also committed there. French author and Nobel laureate André Gide travelled to Ubangi-Shari and was told by inhabitants about atrocities including mutilations, dismemberments, executions, the burning of children, and villagers being forcibly bound to large beams and made to walk until dropping ...
A map of Ubangi-Shari c. 1910 showing the location of Ft. de Possel in the southwestern corner of the colony.. Fort de Possel (French: Fort-de-Possel) was a French garrison and settlement in central Africa which served as the capital of Ubangi-Shari from February 11 to December 11 in 1906. [1]
By 1903 the areas that now make up Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville (then called Moyen-Congo, or Middle Congo) were united as French Congo (later split), with areas further north organised into Ubangi-Shari (modern Central African Republic) and Chad military territory; the latter two areas were merged from 1906 to 1914 as Ubangi-Shari-Chad. [3]
After the addition of Cameroon, the French Congo, led by colonel de Larminat, on August 28, and Ubangi-Shari (present day Central African Republic) followed suit [1] On 29 August 1940, the government of Free French Africa was created by colonel de Larminat. Gabon did not initially join Free France, and remained loyal to Vichy.
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.
Unfortunately, as highlighted by Tilley, “Africa as a Living laboratory shows that national, imperial and international scientific infrastructures were constituted simultaneously”. [20] As a result, the imposition of economic and political dominance over local groups hindered the transition of a hunter-gatherer society into the modern era.
French Congo once comprised the area of Congo, Gabon and Ubangi-Shari (present-day Central African Republic). The French Congo began at Brazzaville on 10 September 1880 as a protectorate over the Bateke people along the north bank of the Congo River. [1]
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