- Reoccupation after Versailles intensified French political control and economic exploitation, overturning Mboum-Pana autonomy and provoking renewed resistance.
- Resistance driven by defence of local authority, livelihoods and traditions, and opposition to colonial taxes, forced labour and resource extraction.
- Anti colonial insurrection took varied forms, from local uprisings to organised warfare, met by a brutal French pacification campaign to reassert order.
War Hist. 2025 Mar 20;33(3):269-288. doi: 10.1177/09683445251328409. eCollection 2026 Jul.
ABSTRACT
Until the aftermath of the Great War, the Mboum-Pana populations succeeded in successively thwarting the attempts at domination by the Fulani, the German and then the French colonisers. However, France reoccupied Ubangi-Shary in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles. As a result, political control and economic exploitation were reinforced within the colonised territory. This paper examines the resistance of the Mboum-Pana to the colonial yoke. To this end, it analyses the factors that triggered this resistance and the forms taken by the anti-colonial insurrection. Finally, the analysis will focus on the war of ‘pacification’ waged to re-establish order.
PMID:42494648 | PMC:PMC13395239 | DOI:10.1177/09683445251328409
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