Pierre Goura was born in the village of Youa, at the time located in Middle Congo (today in the district of Sibiti).

[3] A member of the Congolese Progressive Party (PPC), he was elected in 1946 as deputy for Niari in the Territorial Assembly and remained so until 1957.

[1] On June 19, 1955, he was elected to the Council of the Republic (France), becoming a senator representing the 2nd section of Middle Congo.

Then, in 1956, he asked for the second modernization and equipment plan to have more impact in French Equatorial Africa, and also spoke about the draft framework law relating to overseas territories.

In July 1957, he declared that he would vote for the ratification of the treaty on the European Common Market, believing that the latter could improve economic and social progress overseas.