On December 4, 1977, a very unusual event took place in the heart of Africa. This was the coronation of Emperor Bokassa of the appropriately named Central African Empire, with a pomp and style patterned in much detail after that of Emperor Napoleon I in 1804.

The man at the centre of all of this was Jean-Bedel Bokassa. His career as dictator of the Central African Republic combined not only extreme greed and personal violence but delusions of grandeur unsurpassed by any other African leader.He was prone to towering rages as well as outbursts of sentimentality; and he also gained a reputation for cannibalism.

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.

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Sources:

Dark age, the political odyssey of Emperor Bokassa- Brian Titley

Africa: A Modern History - Guy Arnold

State of Africa After Independence - Martin Meredith

Encyclopeadia of African History - Kevin Shiilington

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The Coronation of Emperor Bokassa, Author(s): John H. Crabb
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