Born in
Pointe-à-Pitre,
Guadeloupe, Bangou became a member of the
French Communist Party (PCF) while a medicine student in metropolitan France. He was then a member of the
Guadeloupe Communist Party (PCG) when it was established at the beginning of the
French Fifth Republic in 1958, and remained a member until 1991, after the
fall of communism, when he led the Pointe-à-Pitre section to split and form the
social-democratic Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe (PPDG), of which he was the first president. Bangou held the following political offices: •
First deputy mayor of
Pointe-à-Pitre from
1959 to 1965 • Mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre from
1965 to 2008. He was succeeded by his son
Jacques Bangou, who remained mayor until 2019. •
General councillor of Guadeloupe from
1967 to 1989 •
Regional councillor of Guadeloupe from 1975 to 1986 •
Senator of
Guadeloupe from to . His wife Marcelle (born 1924) died in June 2015, at the age of 91. Bangou
turned 100 on 15 July 2022, and died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 101. == References ==