“Carlos” producer Daniel Leconte is developing a film-TV hybrid project about Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the late dictator of the Central African Republic. The feature film and three-part TV miniseries will ...

Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in a lavish ceremony on 4 December 1977. He'd already been president for several years since taking power in a military coup ...

Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the former self-proclaimed emperor of the Central African Republic who was accused of slaughtering and eating some of his critics, has died at age 75. Radio Notre Dame, the ...

In the nightmare of the strife-torn Central African Republic, many citizens have begun to long for the "good old days" of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the emperor who became infamous for his brutality yet ...

President Jean Bokassa of Central Africa Republic salutes a dance troupe an arrival in Kampala, Uganda, in 1967. [File, Standard] When a long lost Mau Mau general, Stanley Mathenge Mirugi was ...

Hamid Hashemi Kohandani has translated the book and Vazn-e Donya (literally meaning Weight of the World) Publication has published it, Mehr reported. Originally published in 1997, the book recounts ...

PARISPARIS — A dilapidated French chateau that once belonged to the ruthless leader of the Central African Republic, the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa, was sold for euro915,000 ($1.2 million) Wednesday, a ...

PARIS – A dilapidated French chateau that once belonged to the ruthless leader of the Central African Republic, the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa, was sold for euro915,000 ($1.2 million) Wednesday, a lawyer ...

A controversial historic African leader and two Vietnamese women were involved in a unique story that joins Africa and Vietnam in a recent period of history. Jean-Bédel Bokassa, also called Bokassa I, ...