Mouvement pour l'Evolution sociale de l'Afrique noire

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Mouvement pour l'Evolution sociale de l'Afrique noire
Logo of the MESAN
Party leader Emperor Bokassa
founding 1949
Place of foundation Bangui
resolution 1979
Headquarters Bangui
Alignment Anti-colonialism , Pan-Africanism

The Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire (abbreviated MESAN , French for movement for the social development of Black Africa ) was a political party in Ubangi-Shari and later in the Central African Republic .

The party, which originally worked as a social movement, was founded by Barthélemy Boganda in Bangui , the capital of Ubangi-Shari, on September 28, 1949, with the aim of uniting "all blacks in the world" and to promote political, economic and social affairs to promote the social development of sub- Saharan Africa, to break the barriers of tribalism and racism, and to replace the “inhumane colonial subordination” with a more humane conception of brotherhood and cooperation.

MESAN won all seats in the election for the Territorial Assembly on March 31, 1957 . After independence, MESAN became the governing and de facto unity party. All citizens of the country were declared members and had to pay membership fees. After the military coup of December 1965 and the seizure of power by Jean-Bédel Bokassa , the party formally remained in existence, but had become politically insignificant. The party was dissolved on November 24, 1979 after the fall of Bokassa.

literature

  • Pierre Kalck, Xavier-Samuel Kalck (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic (= African Historical Dictionaries. Volume 93). 3. Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2005, ISBN 978-0-8108-4913-6
  • Yarisse Zoctizoum : Histoire de la Centrafrique. Violence du développement, domination et inégalités. Volume 1: 1879-1959 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85802-292-2
  • Yarisse Zoctizoum : Histoire de la Centrafrique. Violence du développement, domination et inégalités. Volume 2: 1959-1979 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85802-379-0
  • Walter Schicho (Ed.): Central Africa, Southern Africa and the States in the Indian Ocean (= Handbook Africa. Volume 1). Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 978-3-86099-120-6
  • Brian Titley : Dark Age. The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1997, ISBN 978-0-7735-1602-1
  • Pierre Kalck : Central African Republic. A Failure in De-Colonization . Praeger, London 1971
  • Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen, Klaus Landfried (eds.): Political organization and representation in Africa (= The election of parliaments and other state organs. Volume 2). De Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-004518-5
  • Pierre Kalck: La République Centrafricaine . La Documentation Française, Paris 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Kalck, Xavier-Samuel Kalck (ed.): Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic (= African Historical Dictionaries. Volume 93). 3. Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2005, ISBN 978-0-8108-4913-6
  2. ↑ Biographies des députés de la IV République: Barthélémy BOGANDA on the website of the French National Assembly
  3. ^ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen, Klaus Landfried (eds.): Political organization and representation in Africa (= The election of parliaments and other state organs. Volume 2). De Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-004518-5 , p. 2459
  4. ^ Brian Titley : Dark Age. The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1997, ISBN 978-0-7735-1602-1