Flix Adolphe bou was a Black French Guiananborn colonial administrator and Free French leader. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936.
Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, the grandson of slaves, Flix was the fourth of a family of five brothers. His father, Yves Urbain bou, was an orator, and his mother, Marie Josephine Aurlie Leveill, was a shop owner born in Roura. She raised her sons in the Guiana Crole tradition.
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