[4] His primary education allowed him to join the new institution for indigenous people in French Equatorial Africa, the École Edouard Renard in Brazzaville from 1935.
His assignment in Libreville, Gabon, led him to enlist in the Free French Forces in 1941, from which he was discharged in 1945 with the rank of Staff Sergeant.
After supporting the bishop Barthélemy Boganda in the November 1946 nomination for deputy to the National Assembly of France,[2] he participated in the elections for the newly created Representative Council, on the Economic and Social Action lists for the Native College.
[5] On 19 October 1947 he was elected general counselor of French Equatorial Africa by his peers, along with his older brother Antoine Darlan.
[6] In August 1947, he was appointed president of the first local political party, the Ubangi Union (UO) founded by Barthélémy Boganda.
[2][12] Georges Darlan had ambitions of being elected as the deputy to the French National Assembly, in place of Barthélemy Boganda, with whom his relations had deteriorated.
In that year, the president of the Representative Council decided to refocus on COTONCOOP, a more flexible body[14] with 24,000 members,[15] whose executives were politically close to him.
The reports sent to the Head of Planning and the Governor General of French Equatorial Africa went without appeal; all the company business operations had been performed in vain.
[16] Despite these setbacks, Georges Darlan was still considered by the administration to be the main opponent of Boganda in the legislative election of 17 June.
[21] Abel Goumba raises the possibility of an assassination: Darlan is said to have drunken a "glass" in the company of a young woman, become ill suddenly, and been hurriedly returned home, where he died.
[1] Darlan's daughter Danièle is a law professor who was President of the Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic from 2017 to 2022.