This 04 December 1977 file photo shows former Central African Republic leader Jean Bedel Bokassa during hiscoronation in Bangui in the Central African Republic.

For a time, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who came to be known as the “Butcher of Bangui,” was the very embodiment of the extravagant African tyrant. In 1977, his country mired in poverty, the former ...

Yes, the CAE, with its (self-crowned) emperor, Jean-Bédel Bokassa. I cover him and his family in my book Children of Monsters. The Bokassa family — blood-curdling.

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Auctioneers on Wednesday plan to sell a dilapidated chateau outside Paris that once belonged to one of Africa's most ruthless dictators, the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa of Central African Republic.

Leconte plans Bokassa project "Carlos" producer Daniel Leconte is developing a film-TV hybrid project about Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the late dictator of the Central African Republic.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in a lavish ceremony on the 4th of December 1977. Show more ...

Join us as we explore the lives and reigns of Francisco Macias Nguema, Fulgencio Batista, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Pol Pot, and Papa Doc Duvalier.

The egg on the face of government in Nairobi is, however, incomparable to what happened to one of Africa's worst dictator, Jean Bedel Bokassa after he was given a 17-year-old Vietnamese street ...