In 1918, according to his intellectual ability, Tchicaya received a scholarship to study at Ecole William Ponty in Gorée Island, near from Dakar, the most highly regarded public school in all of French West and Equatorial Africa.

[1] During his stay in Dakar from 1918 to 1921, future African French parliamentary deputies and major political figures such as Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Mamba Sano,[1] numbered among his classmates.

[1] Jean Félix-Tchicaya founded a musical and social group called 'L'Harmonie de Pointe-Noire' and coauthored petitions claiming improving right for Western educated Africans.

[1] In the wake of the Communist-Socialist Popular Front electoral victory in France in 1936, Tchicaya had the organizational ability and the connections to take advantage of the mild reforms that came to French Equatorial Africa.

Joseph Reste, his Governor General set up a council of administration with some position for elected African representative[1] s. In 1937 and 1939, Tchicaya led the victorious campaign of the mixed-race Vili man Louis Oliveira.

On December 7, 1945, after a second round, Jean Félix-Tchicaya was elected member of the assembly, edging out Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Jacques Opangault, Issembé and François-Moussa Simon.

In the course of a confab held in Pointe-Noire, in the presence of the leader Tchicaya, in the Mpita property of Germain Bicoumat, a notable Vili man, several territorial councillors resign from the party.

They reproach Tchicaya for its lack of consultation in some decisions (appointment of elected officials to positions of responsibility, the dissimilarity of CPP in the RDA following the accession of Fulbert Youlou).