The United States of Latin Africa (French: États-Unis de l'Afrique latine, Portuguese: Estados Unidos da África Latina, Spanish: Estados Unidos de África Latina) was the proposed union of Romance-language-speaking Central African countries envisioned by Central African politician Barthélémy Boganda.
[2] Boganda viewed this entity to be a counterweight to the powerful British-influenced southern bloc of South Africa and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
According to Wright, these ideas reflected only the attitudes of those Africans educated in France or Britain, the dominant European powers of that time.
As we did it when France was in danger, we shall shed our blood for Africa and to protect the Central African Republic, member of the French Community.
"[5] President Jean-Bédel Bokassa considered the replacement of the flag in 1976, following his conversion to Islam under the influence of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.