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    Jean-Bédel Bokassa ([ʒɑ̃ bedɛl bɔkasa] ; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996), also known as Bokassa I, was a Central African political and military leader...
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  • Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jr. (born 2 November 1973) is a son of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the former dictator of the Central African Republic and its successor state...
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    Republic. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7992-8. "Jean-Bedel Bokassa Genealogy". Archived from the original on December 21, 2008. Retrieved...
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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 be dissolved...
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    state and self-proclaimed monarchy—which was established in 1976 by Jean-Bédel Bokassa, military dictator and president for life of the Central African Republic...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    including an abortive attempt at a monarchy under the regime of Jean-Bedel Bokassa. By the 1990s, calls for democracy led to the first multi-party democratic...
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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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    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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  • 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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    daughter of Jean-Bedel Bokassa is still living in Saigon with her mother. After inviting both the real Martine and her mother to CAR, Jean-Bedel Bokassa accused...
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    Bangui City Hall. It was the location for the Coronation Mass of Jean-Bédel Bokassa (Bokassa I) in 1977. "Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception"...
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    conflicts continue into the 21st century. North of the Congo Basin, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, dictator of the Central African Republic, seems to have eaten the...
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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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    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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    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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    only remaining monarch in the world with the title "Emperor", after Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Emperor of Central Africa was deposed. Hirohito was born at Aoyama...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Bamba-Lamine Marie-Thérèse Bocoum Jean-Bédel Bokassa André Chouraqui Jacques Diouf Sadio Gassama Édouard Guillaud Gaylord Harnwell Jean Herly Festus Mogae Mike...
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    Republic and became independent from France in 1960. In 1970, President Jean-Bédel Bokassa inaugurated the University of Bangui. He established the national...
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  • was reconstructed during the rule of Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1966–1979). During the final three years of Bokassa’s rule, the leader served as the Emperor...
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