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The regency became a de faco independent military republic, with power initially concentrated in the Agha, who served as the president of the diwan. From 1671 onward, authority was vested in the Dey of Algiers. [2] [3] United States: 4 March 1789: The present U.S. constitution became effective, establishing the current U.S. government. [4] France
On 13 August 1960, Ubangi-Shari obtained its independence from France and changed its name to the Central African Republic (CAR) and Dacko became the country's first President. [1] France had actively propped up Dacko, discarding figures such as Abel Goumba whom it perceived as overly nationalistic and anti-French. [3]: 16–17
The French asserted their legal claim to the area through an 1887 convention with Congo Free State (privately owned by Leopold II of Belgium), which accepted France possession of the right bank of the Oubangui River. [12] In 1889, the French established a post on the Ubangi River at Bangui.
By the end of the nineteenth century; the majority of major European powers sought to expand their dominion into Africa. France in particular saw this as an opportunity to “[link] France’s territorial conquests in Africa along a west-east axis”, [2] thereby limiting Britain's influence in the region.
The United States supported France's continuing presence in Africa to prevent the region from falling under Soviet influence during the Cold War. [3] France kept close political, economic, military and cultural ties with its former African colonies that were multi-layered, involving institutional, semi-institutional and informal levels.
The constitution of the Fifth Republic, which created the French Community, was a consequence of the Algerian War.Under the 1946 French Union there was said to be no French colonies, but metropolitan France, the overseas departments, and the overseas territories would instead constitute a single French Union, or just one France.
France [1] Libya: 1911 Italy [2] Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3] Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 United Kingdom: Burundi: 1893 Germany [4] Nri Kingdom: 1911 United Kingdom: Kingdom of Benin: 1897 United Kingdom: Bunyoro: 1899 United Kingdom: Dahomey: 1894 France: Rwanda: 1894 Germany [5] Oubangui ...
Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002) Confer, Vincent (1964). "French Colonial Ideas before 1789". French Historical Studies. 3 (3): 338– 359. doi:10.2307/285947. JSTOR 285947.. Conkin, Alice L. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (1997) online ...