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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa abstract "The Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa (Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire or MESAN) was a nationalist quasi-religious political party that sought to affirm black humanity and advocated for the independence of Ubangi-Shari, then a French colonial territory. 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" and "to promote the political, economic and social evolution of black Africa, to break down the barriers of tribalism and racism, to replace the degrading notion of colonial subordination with the more human ones of fraternity and cooperation."The statutes of the movement were written in April 1950, and the group's branches were set up in Ubangui, Fort Lamy and Brazzaville. The formation of MESAN did not sit well with the French territorial administration. They set up divisions of the Rassemblement du Peuple Français (French People's Party, also known as RPF) in Ubangi-Shari to oppose the MESAN. The movement also encountered resistance in French Equatorial Africa from the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (African Democratic Rally, or RDA), a political party initially geared towards Pan-Africanism that later became hostile towards efforts for African independence.In the Ubangi-Shari Territorial Assembly election in 1957, MESAN captured 347,000 out of the total 356,000 votes, cast and won every legislative seat, which led to Boganda being elected president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa and vice-president of the Ubangi-Shari Government Council. Within a year, he declared the establishment of the Central African Republic and served as the country's first prime minister. MESAN continued to exist, but its role was limited. After Boganda's death in a plane crash on 29 March 1959, his cousin, David Dacko, took control of MESAN and became the country's first president after the CAR had formally received independence from France. Dacko threw out his political rivals, including former Prime Minister and Mouvement d'évolution démocratique de l'Afrique centrale (MEDAC), leader Abel Goumba, who he forced into exile in France. With all opposition parties suppressed by November 1962, Dacko declared MESAN as the official party of the state.On 31 December 1965, General Jean-Bédel Bokassa, a cousin of both Boganda and Dacko, seized power in the CAR through a coup d'état. The next day, 1 January 1966, he proclaimed himself president, prime minister, and head of MESAN. Bokassa would stay in power for the next 13 years. In 1972, he appointed Elisabeth Domitien as vice president of the party, and three years later as prime minister, a first for any woman of an African nation. At the MESAN congress on 4 December 1976, Bokassa instituted a new constitution and declared the republic a monarchy, to be known as the Central African Empire. In September 1979, Bokassa was overthrown and Dacko once again became president of the CAR. On 24 November, he abolished MESAN and replaced it with the Union Démocratique Centrafricaine, which he proclaimed as the new political party for the CAR.".
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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa formationDate "1949-09-28".
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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa country "Central African Republic".
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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa ideology "Independentism of Ubangi-Shari from France".
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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa nameEnglish "Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa".
- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa nameNative "Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire".
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- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa label "Movimiento por la Evolución Social del África Negra".
- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa label "Движение за социальную эволюцию Чёрной Африки".
- Movement_for_the_Social_Evolution_of_Black_Africa label "黑非洲社会进化运动".
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