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Gabriel Lisette 🇵🇦

Gabriel Francisco Lisette (Known as "Lisette")
Founder of Chadian Progressive Party (PPT-RDA), First Premier of Chad (1957–1959)
Born 1919-04-02 🇵🇦 Portobelo, Panama
Passed Away 2001-03-03 Port-de-Lanne, Landes, France
Lifespan 81 years old
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"True progress begins when the people organize their own political voice to claim equality."

Archival Overview

Afro-Caribbean colonial administrator who founded the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT) in 1947, served as Chad's first native head of government (1957–1959), and laid the democratic groundwork for independence.

Biographical Record

Gabriel Francisco Lisette was born on April 2, 1919, in Panama to Afro-Guadeloupean parents. Graduating from the École nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer in Paris, Lisette was assigned as a colonial administrator to Chad in 1946.

Deeply moved by the oppression of the native population under forced labor, Lisette founded the Parti Progressiste Tchadien (PPT) in 1947 as a branch of Félix Houphouët-Boigny's RDA. Elected to the French National Assembly, he became the first Premier of Chad in May 1957, modernizing labor laws and training young Chadian leaders including Tombalbaye. Banned from returning to Chad by Tombalbaye in 1960 while on a foreign mission, he lived in France as a respected elder diplomat.

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Final Resting Place

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Port-de-Lanne Cemetery
Landes, France
GPS: 43.5600, -1.1800
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