Jean-Bédel Bokassa ([ʒɑ̃ bedɛl bɔkasa] ; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996) was a Central African political and military leader. He became the second...
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jr. (born 2 November 1973) is a son of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the former dictator and emperor of the Central African Republic and its successor...
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The House of Bokassa is an African former ruling imperial dynasty. Its founder, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruled as self-crowned emperor over the territories...
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December 1976 when the then-President of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, declared himself Emperor of Central Africa. The empire would fall...
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of Bangui, and passed by the Jean-Bédel Bokassa Sports Palace, along Bokassa Avenue, not far from the Jean-Bédel Bokassa University. By 08:30, all the...
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Catherine Denguiadé (category House of Bokassa)
known as Catherine Bokassa (born 7 August 1949), is a Central African former member of the royal family and the widow of Jean-Bédel Bokassa. She was one of...
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Dictator/Emperor of the Central African Republic/Central African Empire, Jean-Bédel Bokassa. Nordlinger, Jay (22 Sep 2015). Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into...
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protests against self-proclaimed emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa. Described as one of Africa's most brutal dictators, Bokassa came to power after a coup in 1965...
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Jean-Serge Bokassa (born 25 February 1972) is a Central African politician who served in the government of the Central African Republic as Minister of...
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with personality cults like Kim Jong Il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Saparmurat Niyazov. The film's opening credits...
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Central Africa (French: Empereur de Centrafrique) was the title used by Jean-Bédel Bokassa from 4 December 1976, who was crowned on 4 December 1977 in a lavish...
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eldest grandson of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the 2nd President of the Central African Republic and later the self-proclaimed Emperor Bokassa I of its successor...
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einem düsteren Reich) is a documentary film by Werner Herzog about Jean-Bédel Bokassa. Unlike most of Herzog's documentaries, the main body of the film...
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to the Central African Republic Civil War, which started in 2012. Jean-Bédel Bokassa, dictator of the Central African Republic, seems to have eaten the...
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David Dacko (section Overthrown by Bokassa)
group. A M'Baka (Ngbaka), he was a distant cousin of future rival Jean-Bédel Bokassa. Soon after Dacko's birth, his family moved to Boda, where his father...
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coup d'état by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. President Bokassa declared himself President...
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African Republic but also those who served as de facto heads of state. Jean-Bédel Bokassa served as a de facto head of state (and also reigned as Emperor from...
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from the Central African Republic. She was one of the 17 wives of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, CAR dictator. She was a goodwill ambassador in Senegal from 2003...
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military base in 1965, Banza helped Jean-Bédel Bokassa overthrow the government of President David Dacko. Bokassa rewarded Banza by appointing him as...
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Bangui City Hall. It was the location for the Coronation Mass of Jean-Bédel Bokassa (Bokassa I) in 1977 and the opening of the first holy door of the Catholic...
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the President (and future Emperor) of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa. The affair was unveiled by the satiric newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné...
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Several African military dictators, such as Hamani Diori of Niger, Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, and Idi Amin of Uganda, were at one...
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only remaining monarch in the world with the title "Emperor", after Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Emperor of Central Africa, was deposed. Hirohito was born on 29 April...
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only statesman in the world at the time who had two such cars). Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jean-Claude Duvalier John Vorster Jomo Kenyatta Khalid of Saudi Arabia[citation...
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high-ranking army officer in the 1970s, under the rule of Jean-Bédel Bokassa. After Bokassa was ousted, Bozizé served in the government as Minister of...
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Bongo Dawda Jawara changed to David Jawara in 1953 Jean-Bédel Bokassa changed to Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa In some countries after following their independence...
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Central African Republic, member of the French Community." President Jean-Bédel Bokassa considered the replacement of the flag in 1976, following his conversion...
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Central African Republic, David Dacko, and the commander-in-chief, Jean-Bédel Bokassa. She served as a political adviser both to the leaders and to ordinary...
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The Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état was a coup d'état staged by Jean-Bédel Bokassa, commander-in-chief of the Central African Republic (CAR) army, and his...
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placing all executive power in the office of the President. President Jean-Bédel Bokassa restored the office of Prime Minister to assist him in governing the...
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