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Beware the New Colonialism. Even among the leaders of France's former territories, there are vast differences about where they should be heading. The eccentric Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Republic of Congo is not a man to want to join a federation that may cut down his own power within his present preserve. The abbe's more statesmanlike neighbor to the north, Strongman Barthelemy Boganda, of the former French territory of Ubangi-Shari -now grandly called the Central African Republic* fears that in the fragmentation of French Equatorial African states, the young republics might...
...even his wizened old mother, after performing a little weaving dance in his honor, fell on her knees before him. As he drove through the streets in his blue-grey Pontiac, his excited fans followed in trucks and jeeps, shooting into the air and shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle Congo's capital city of Pointe-Noire. There the Assembly had turned the territory into an autonomous republic within the French community and named abbé Youlou...
...Over the protests of his archbishop, he decided to run for the French National Assembly. He was forbidden by his archbishop to say Mass, though he still wears black or white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took their problems to him as if he were their actual Deputy. In 1956 Youlou was elected mayor of Brazzaville (pop. 100,000) in a landslide. By the time Charles de Gaulle visited Brazzaville last summer, the abb...
...cagey politician who is given to spouting fractured French ("La ou il y a de I'homme, il y a de I'hommerie"), and making resounding promises ("The thirst for a better state itches us"), the abbé likes to foretell "tomorrows that sing...
Come Over, Come Over. What keeps the abbé's todays from singing is the fact that upriver he has a political challenger named Jacques Opangault. The abbé took care of him in great style. The abbé has a 23 to 22 majority in the territorial Assembly, but the capital city of Pointe-Noire is in the hands of M'vili tribesmen friendly to his rival. When the Assembly gathered to choose the territory's future status, the abbé's rivals began throwing chairs about and smashing windows. Opangault himself whacked the Speaker...