2001-08-27 04:00:00 PDT Berengo, Central African Republic-- Rising up from a palm grove like a mirage, the shimmering palace of the Central African Republic's self-styled emperor, Jean-Bedel ...

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.

Central Africa Republic's late Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa poses with family members at the Hardricourt castle, near Paris, in this picture taken on Sept. 12, 1984 .

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.

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 ...

Photos from the ruined palace of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, home to several hundred rag-tag army recruits caught up in the chaos that has enveloped the Central African Republic.

Central African Republic's flamboyant and ruthless former President, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, is rehabilitated by presidential decree.

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 ...

We eagerly drink in the details of his bistro conversation with a daughter of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the former dictator of the Central African Republic, who was rumored to have served human flesh ...