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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]
Term Incumbent Notes French Suzerainty: 10 February 1894 to 13 July 1894: Eugène Decazes, Director: Upper Oubangui (Haut-Oubangui): 13 July 1894 to 20 October 1894: Eugène Decazes, Commissioner
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.
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French Equatorial Africa (French: Afrique équatoriale française, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted of Gabon, French Congo, Ubangi-Shari, and Chad. It existed from 1910 to 1958 and its administration was based in Brazzaville.
The party, which was initially intended to work as a political movement, was founded by Barthélemy Boganda in Bangui, Ubangi-Shari (later known as the Central African Republic) on 28 September 1949, to connect "all the Blacks of the world" [1] and "to promote the political, economic and social evolution of black Africa, to break down the barriers of tribalism and racism, to replace the ...