context: After World War II, Boganda was urged by Bishop Bangui Mgr. Grandin to complement his humanitarian and social works through political action. Boganda decided to participate in the French National Assembly elections. On November 10, 1946, he became the first Oubangui to be elected to the assembly after winning nearly half of the total votes and defeating three other candidates, including the incumbent incumbent, François Joseph Reste, who previously served as Governor- French Equatorial African General. [9] Boganda arrived in Paris in his priest's robe and introduced himself to his fellow legislators as the son of a polygamous cannibal. [10] From 1947 onwards, Boganda vigorously campaigned against racism and the colonial regime. Shortly after realizing the limitations of his influence in France (he served in parliament until 1958 but gradually withdrew from parliamentary activities), [11] he returned to Oubangui-Chari to organize a popular movement consisting of teachers, drivers trucks, and small producers to oppose French colonialism, despite previous failures in seeking the establishment of marketing cooperatives among African planters of their own ethnicity. [12] [13] On September 28, 1949, in Bangui, he founded the Black African Social Evolution Movement (MESAN), a quasi-religious political party and movement that sought to assert black humanity and immediately dominate local politics. His political beliefs are summarized in the Sango phrase "zo kwe zo", which translates to "every human being is a person". [14] Effectively, he sought equality of treatment and civil rights for black people in the French Union, and not independence, at least temporarily. [15] It does not limit the large masses of people - women, youth, workers, poor farmers - so that the creativity of the Oubangui people can come out by placing them center stage in the process of making the history of their country. [16]
question: Since when did Barthélemy Boganda become a politician?
answers.text: November 10, 1946