Name Jean-Felix Tchicaya | Role Politician | |
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Died January 15, 1961, Pointe-Noire, Congo | ||
Terre d’école au C.E.G Jean Felix Tchicaya à Pointe-Noire
Jean-Félix Tchicaya was a Congolese politician in the French colony of Middle Congo. He was born in Libreville on the 9th of November 1903 and a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Loango.
In 1945, he was elected as the first deputy for Middle-Congo and the Gabon in the French National Assembly, a seat he retained until the end of the French Fourth Republic. He helped found the Congolese Progressive Party (PPC), a Congolese branch of the African Democratic Rally, in 1946.
He died in Point Noire on January 15, 1961 seeing his rival Fulbert Youlou gain power over a newly independent Republic of Congo.
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