Brutal Dictators - Africa's Last Emperor - Jean Bedel Bokassa - (Documentary)

The coronation of Emperor Bokassa the First in 1977 was one of Africa's more bizarre spectacles. A lavish extravaganza based on the coronation of Napoleon, Jean Bedel Bokassa saw himself as the new royalty of the Central African Republic.
Brutal and vain in equal measure, here is a look at one of Africa's forgotten dictators.
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[@HenchmenNo616]

" Jean Bokassa stadium, next to Jean Bokassa University. Which was situated at Bokassa Avenue" Well done for delivering that sentence with a straight face.

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

at this point, i am surprised he didn't renamed the country "BoKassia"

[@dwaynedarwindumip-ig5720]

Reminds me of aladeen

[@gburahbondo2948]

Me too commend him. I enjoyed it very much

[@reeseyoungn2393]

That man WAS INTO HIMSELF LIKE A MUTHERFUCKER & guaranteed he got out of the Bakassa car in a bakassa suit with bakassa cologne on

[@crowns9966]

I had to rewind to realize it wasn't my mind playing games, that shit was ridiculous haha

[@qazwsxedcrfvtgb89999]

I have read about him before, wasn't aware he was the best engineer, farmer and footballer. What a guy. So gifted at so many things.

[@humanitywins2190]

if he was a good farmer then why did his country and his people suffer? highest possibility that he entitled himself

[@qazwsxedcrfvtgb89999]

@@humanitywins2190 Hmm I believe sarcasm is lost on you

[@qazwsxedcrfvtgb89999]

@@humanitywins2190 High possibility.... 100% possibility he entered it himself

[@unf3z4nt]

If somebody did this for real, it would be an interesting centuries long career.

[@zezuntxiduntxi]

lool....

[@drgonzo305]

Best engineer, best farmer, world greatest dictator, best soccer player, best cook and all around good guy

[@Sunflower88685]

🤣🤣

[@drgonzo305]

@WarLeaks Compact it’s a shame he died before twitter and TikTok, he would’ve fit right in!

[@egon2012]

Best cannibal!

[@-RunninNGunnin-]

Perfect LinkedIn profile for him 😂😂

[@marcwareham9351]

*football ⚽️

[@EagleLeader1]

I remember seeing an image of him in his coronation attire in a children's encyclopedia when I was a kid. Being an avid fan of Napoleon I instantly recognized his attire. The book never said anything specific about him or even named him so I was unable to learn anything other than he was 1 of the many despots of Africa. So thanks for this, it only took over 20 yrs to prove my suspicion that whomever this guy was he was imitating Napoleon.

[@brett8460]

His coronation as Emperor of Central Africa was an exact copy of the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French in 1804. The coronation was so expensive that it cost over US$20 million ($90 million today) to fund and caused serious damage to the state, leading to a huge outcry in Africa and around the world...and he only stayed in power for a little under two years.

[@EagleLeader1]

@@brett8460 wow thanks!

[@johndoherty2403]

@@brett8460 Was it his fault ? he grew up in colonial France, Colonial France literally brain washed the minds of Africans that till today they ex French colonies must deposit 70% of value of money they wish to print in gold to France central bank. Thats is wild! if you ask me, asking your past master for permission to make something that is yours (doesn't seem very independent) ... to me he did the best he could, to change an image based on the influences of that time and his personal experience. A lot of African countries have characters like him but from what I have seen, the ones in Old French Colonies had a deeper mental problem.

[@ashsi9625]

was the encyclopedia bright green by any chance? i had one as a kid with his coronation too; it included that he bankrupted the country as a small caption

[@EagleLeader1]

@@ashsi9625 it sorta had a navy blue border & multiple pictures of different topics on the cover. Maybe it was a different edition of the same book. Mine was bought while living in the Caribbean, often we'd get UK editions of books with British English spelling.

[@TriceCeilborn]

The fact that he got to live out a full life without any real justice is appalling...

[@PibrochPonder]

Exactly

[@frnkek]

not exactly. he was sentenced to death in absentia after going into exile after being overthrown by France. After returning, he was arrested immediately after leaving the plane and sent to life in prison, then was pardoned. forgot to add, he was in exile in the Ivory Coast, not in france nor any nation

[@PibrochPonder]

@@frnkek he had a life that makes most rock and roll stars looks like amateurs

[@matty6848]

That’s the French for you. The British or American government would never allow him to live in exile like that…

[@hoponasu5870]

@@matty6848 really ? how do you explain Ferdinand Marcos exile in USA with suitcases full of cash ?. that video is on youtube

[@ronpi4286]

I’m still laughing at how he awarded himself “Best Soccer Player”!

[@testaccount4191]

to be fair would you want to win if you played against him?

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

@ ronpi 4286 it’s football

[@drdrew3]

He really devoured the competition !

[@djphlange]

imagine one of his workers saying "lets see some soccer skills!" lol

[@weaselworm8681]

I recall an American “emperor” clawing he was the best at everything from “nuclear” to “business” and also being a “stable genius”. It doesn’t matter if any of it is true. It matter if the emperors followers are willing to support the claims.

[@killerfrank8974]

Simply horrible, my heart weeps for the people who have to live under rulers like this.

[@jh6031]

What a terrible, fascinating story. I was of age in the 1980s to remember him and nothing comes to mind. A truly horrifying story. Thank you for pulling this together.

[@leftblank131]

Remember, Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal

[@malcolmbaldwin5735]

he would take a hotdog bun and fill it with a giant african cok

[@wigwagstudios2474]

💀💀💀

[@user-uk9sd2ln7f]

Not per se when fighting an animal

[@Dr-Weird]

Lol damn you got me.

[@t.antoinette2383]

@@Dr-Weird Lls

[@solsun75]

Responsible for killing 150 kids and France let him live there in exile…

[@theravenseye9443]

I know - similar to Idi Amin who ended up living comfortably in Saudi Arabia until he died...

[@LordDim1]

The craziest part is, Bokassa is generally seen as the greatest leader of Central Africa, and his rule is generally remembered with nostalgia. Really says how absolutely terribly the country has been run since

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

If he hadn't been a dictator he would've been seen as one of the worst serial killers ever lived.

[@StreetDrilla]

@@LordDim1 Dictator: dies His country:

[@mattkaustickomments]

He probably took pictures of the French “dignitaries” playing with his harem so he had something on them. I’m surprised they didn’t have him assassinated, instead of having him around as a liability. I though Idi Amin was bad but this guy is even more outrageous. So sad that Africa has had so many of these evil buffoons.

[@Cardi859]

The thing that stands out for me is how he continuously endeared and loved the culture of the same people who beat his father to death

[@pyromaniac709]

Black people who say they hate "white culture" are just jealous and want to be part of it themselves

[@totallythandi2555]

Trauma can do that

[@cottonhairedaesthetic2005]

Evil

[@seetheious9879]

It ended how it began. The circle completed. What France did to Thomas Sankara was worse, hr actually did right for his country.

[@bluewaves_8]

You knew he is a dictator, once he gets the full supports of the french government.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Idi amin was also supported, mugabe was sort of supported... great track record eh?

[@condor8142]

I know! The French is still working on finding another guy like him, in vain! They're "not loved' anymore; so they stick around hoping another glorious day! Vive la France 🤣

[@Castdeath]

France post WWII African policies always has me going: 🤦‍♂️

[@bengheinrich7500]

Bokassa didn't have the means to fund the coronation nor did he have the empire. Napoleon could have actually pulled it off because he had an empire and could actually pay for his own coronation. All the coronation did was make Bokassa look like a megalomaniac and a ridiculous narcissistic individual in which he was.

[@adotintheshark4848]

You wouldn't want his cookbook either.

[@Quaaludio]

thats racist!

[@iamieeesha9619]

Napoleon still sucks tho

[@danchiengchiengi8581]

Ha ha really? He couldn't afford it? Ha ha

[@JakobMusick]

It also shows how he was dependent on France.

[@2bidfilmsguy]

I hope this story serves as a warning to unchecked greed, arrogance and narcissism and not only what it can do to an individual person, but to the entirety of a country if gone unchallenged

[@robertcronin6603]

Yes ... exactly.

[@dougbrowne9890]

Don't hold your breath.

[@answerman9933]

A warning? More like another example in a long line that still continues today.

[@DeeVine999]

Like the Queen of England and her entitled brats?!

[@2bidfilmsguy]

@@answerman9933 a warning, not to the oppressor, but to the oppressed

[@spencerific93]

This guy was so sickeningly nuts that I'm now going to watch another one of your videos to take my mind off him. You're doing an awesome job telling these insane stories, man! Maybe a bit too awesome lol.

[@lovablelady-]

Took a moment not to give this a thumbs down, but that would’ve been solely based on my distaste for Bokassa. What a horrible history. Thanks for telling it.

[@monkeytennis8861]

How pointless

[@mickkimmings6186]

He's the only person smiling in the family photo

[@elocincoler]

Lol

[@malcolmbaldwin5735]

he just ate lunch , human balls , medium rare

[@PatroitSongChannel]

@@malcolmbaldwin5735 with extra dip and large soda?

[@duncankomu8088]

Well he's a sociopath....was a sociopath

[@crowns9966]

@@malcolmbaldwin5735 Lmaoo

[@sentimentalbloke185]

Big Man of Africa syndrome, it's quite common. A good recent book on this phenomenon is Dictatorland: the Men Who Stole Africa by British journalist Paul Kenyon.

[@matty6848]

Have you read the book “ the last king of Scotland” about Idi Amin? That’s a good read, the movie is pretty good as well. He was one nasty, brutal man. Irony is he was also a British military trained commando and heavyweight boxer. Apparently a very tough, big intimidating man, who you didn’t want too get on the wrong side with.. he was a big lover and admirer of Scottish culture and kings, especially those that stood up and thought against English rule, because he served in a Scottish regiment whilst he was a soldier in Africa and thought with the Sots in Mau Mau. His personal physician, wa a Scottish doctor, think the book is written by him about his experiences with Idi Amin.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@matty6848 No, haven't read it. Kenyon's book does case studies of Congo, Zimbabwe, Libya, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Eritrea. Based around 4 themes of exploitation: Gold & diamonds, chocolate, oil, and modern slave trading.

[@overflowspencer938]

There is a part that's rarely touched on the worst dictators on the African continent were assisted and granted legitimacy by American or European governments and those that tried to free their country from the fangs of an external influence were disposed of and replaced by who..... someone with a big man of Africa syndrome

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@overflowspencer938 Yes, the west is complicit, but whether they're instigators or not is another thing. It's like the old Atlantic slave trade: if Africans didn't sell other Africans would the trade have been as productive or even possible? Big Men of Africa have no care for their people.

[@diogeneslantern18]

@@matty6848 The Last King of Scotland is more fiction than fact.

[@Bentley7Cruize]

The fact he really got released early and lived peacefully is insane lol

[@Corn-Pop.]

I also often pick the Cannibal Perk when playing Fallout. It's a easy way to gain health points after combat, and it pretty funny when the game allows you to eat a robot in the older games.

[@mommy2libras]

"Looking back, the time of Bokassa was something to admire. I mean, what's a few schoolchildren beaten to death or people starving while the emperor feasts on human flesh and the finest champagne? At least people were patriotic!"

[@adotintheshark4848]

Champagne doesn't go well with human flesh either. Bokassa had no class.

[@adotintheshark4848]

@@orangebetsy Having champagne with human flesh. Human goes better with chardonnay

[@dancingfirefly7761]

@@adotintheshark4848 😳😳😳😳

[@johnscanlon2598]

@@adotintheshark4848 Hannibal Lecter suggests a fine Chianti

[@nondelusional]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmK5iKylnKh8o9E

[@NaNaShee]

I saw a documentary about him when I was a kid, I think he might have just died then. It's insane to me that this guy basically got away with everything and got to live out his life, pretty wild.

[@Packless1]

...who said life is fair...? :-(

[@Larkinchance]

That's what we call freedom and liberty

[@nexusdrexus9361]

Because him was a France,puppets play along with the narrative of Africa scramble, stop watching television dumbfounded zombies

[@jamaquinabella3378]

He got away from the Justice of men but not from God. I can assure you that he is paying dearly for what he did while he lived..

[@tayosunmola1991]

Yup. And to even think they later awarded him posthumously son of the country. Lauding his Tyrannical and evil rule.

[@waltuh11121]

Bro african history is wild

[@daniell1483]

From the US, I love world history, and yet I've never heard of this particular megalomaniac. How bad must a country be, for its people to look back to a tyrannical dictator as the 'good old days'? Things must be absolutely horrible to look back at a possible serial cannibalist dictator with reverence. Freaky!

[@sashamoore9691]

Same!

[@thinkforyourself2109]

Many Russians look back at Stalin's reign with nostalgia because they had jobs and housing and the nation had stability -- though at the price of enormous crimes and mass murder.

[@mikelaster3190]

Dictator ship in the USA also ...But who cares we all deal with it daily .

[@thedelordhimselfgokublack]

Bro Shut up. You don't know anything. They always criticize these so called dictators and call them tyrants. But the countries are usually better. All this cannibalism is always European propaganda when they don't like any African leader. Same thing they did to Idi Amin. Of course they never painted Gadafi as a cannibal. But he was still painted as a Tyrant. Most of the time. These guys refuse to submit to their control or do as they want.

[@krunchy8118]

Yeah so weird all I ever heard was white man bad. Then again, if he was white I'm sure I would have been taught about him. Weird

[@SandDabs]

This guy beat 150 kids to death? He was a serial cannibal? He squandered the country's wealth on himself while everyone else suffered? *in Norm McDonald voice....That guy sounds like a real jerk!

[@Packless1]

...hmmm...in fact he REALLY WAS A JERK...!!!

[@weazels]

You’d be amazed how often shit like this happened in Africa

[@fabiwilliams4644]

Don't be surprised to find out the majority of dictators in Africa have probably all taken this path. Just look at Idi Amin

[@TheGrowlingAraknid]

This is normal in Africa. Their history is just awful

[@girlgarde]

He was more then a jerk, he was a demon in Human form basically but scumbag dictators like him are all too common in Africa.

[@JonosBtheMC]

2:27 Makes Hermann Göring look understated.

[@54blewis]

Which says a lot…

[@matty6848]

Yeh but at least Herman Goring was rich and had intelligence. At least his medals were won in combat, not self awarded like these African dictators. Goring was a real soldier, real pilot who risked his life on many occasions and fought his way too the top.

[@arthurballs9632]

Goering had legendary charm and wit. The papers of the British prosecution team at the 1st Nuremberg trial reveal they were enormously apprehensive of Goering winning over not just the German public but American and British people with his charisma at the trial. One British prosecutor even admitted that himself and the British interrogators all enjoyed being in Goering's company.

[@lapensulo4684]

The Ozymandias reference was spot on. Several times I have taught this poem.

[@martindunstan8043]

The world has kept this a bit hush hush, I honestly haven't heard of him(that I remember) and I was born in '71 which is a long time before hearing of this creep. Thank you for bringing this to us a very well presented and detailed video. 👍

[@rogerszmodis]

Sounds like a pretty standard African dictator.

[@freedomworks3976]

Yep they are all bad

[@F11ch]

one big N moment

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

Pretty crazy how the same thing happens when you let the kids run their own continent

[@ryroberts1219]

@@F11ch haha?

[@ryroberts1219]

@@thedukeofswellington1827 ok duke 😐

[@TheMrB]

Love your channel, you have wonderful speaking voice at a very good pace. nice work

[@theravenseye9443]

Thank you very much.

[@tommo9176]

Sub'd. This was fantastic and you covered it incredibly well. Great job mate!

[@theravenseye9443]

Thanks for the sub Tommo!

[@mikerowley1189]

He actually was never really punished for his crimes…..his country has never recovered……sad legacy

[@Packless1]

...seems to be s.k.o. 'sport' of dictators how long it takes their countries to recover...! :-( ...Mao, Hitler and Stalin to Kim: "...you're from a dynasty, that doesn't count...!"

[@ressljs]

I first learned about this guy from listening to a Pet Shop Boys song about evil dictators driving each other crazy in hell. I recognized everyone else names in the song, but thought, "Who is this Emperor Bokassa?" Five minutes of Googling later, I was thinking "Holy ****, that guy was crazy!"

[@sabrinatscha2554]

What a strange premise for a song. I’ve never heard that one before

[@ressljs]

@@sabrinatscha2554 It's a weirdly fun song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJiviWqbedKmfpY

[@arthurballs9632]

What song is that please?

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

@@arthurballs9632 "Hell" by Pet Shop Boys off their 2012 album "Elysium." They have another song that is quite on point called "The Dictator Decides" from their 2016 album "Super."

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

Leave it to Neil Tennant to somehow work in Bokassa into a song! Another song of note, dealing with emperors, is from their 2009 album "Yes." "The King of Rome" is about loneliness amidst splendor and directly references Napoleon's son, the King of Rome, who reigned as Napoleon II for like a week in 1815. Of course, Napoleon II was raised in Vienna by his mother's family, the Hapsburgs and lived an isolated life amidst imperial pomp. Loved and feared by his own grandfather, Kaiser Franz, and the rest of Europe.

[@marcelovolcato8892]

What a crazy story! Keep this great content coming!

[@jaymorgan7728]

The silly uniforms and medals he wears are hilarious.

[@chrispeterson4463]

Man, Africa can produce some of the wildest leaders- Idi Amin was also knocking about during this time as well.

[@laoch5658]

Robert Mugabe too

[@archvilethe87th60]

Bokassa personally met with not only Idi Amin but Macias Nguema too.

[@Elite7555]

Fined for being jobless? Now that's next level genius!

[@elijahbee34]

Don't forget the imprisonment part also! 😩🤣

[@12345678927164]

It was pretty based

[@liliya_aseeva]

Many countries have rather strange job laws, especially those countries who try to provide state jobs for everyone. USSR also had a criminal charge for willful unemployment, but USSR actually had funds and projects to provide jobs for everyone.

[@rabbitss11]

You can see the fear in the faces of all the people around him

[@debartellomartinez7214]

Beating children to death sounds like a myth, he actually loved children that is why he had so many.

[@violagentsch]

When your own ppl starve, you're a dictator not an emperor.

[@Packless1]

...where's the difference...???

[@twofiveb]

@@Packless1 I would guess that a dictator is what everyone else calls you. An emperor is what you call yourself.

[@kingofcards9516]

​@@Packless1usually Emperors and other monarchs combine religion, tradition, culture and political power in one individual. Dictators usually just take the power and keep it with constant brutal actions.

[@brunovolk7462]

Today he would be an inspiring young Global Leader 🤗

[@robertcronin6603]

Yep... pretty much.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

And Obama and Stacey Abrams would've given him a spot in their office. Even Oprah and Whoopi would have invited them on their shows and told them to go after "old white people".

[@sabrinatscha2554]

@Virginia Connor Exactly. In fact the way he was treated in France was pretty much the contemporary equivalent of that.

[@speed65752]

11:30 To be honest, those sentiments are felt in almost any post dictatorship. Italy was full of people nostalgic of the fascist era (obviously those that weren't directly victims of the regime). Russia and not only Russia still have people dreaming about the Soviet union's days. Spain also.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

Russia definitely embraces its Soviet aesthetic to some extent but most people who have lived it definitely do not look back on those days with fondness.

[@t.b.g.504]

Also Romania re Ceaucescu.

[@animuslite8809]

Franco genuinely wasn't that bad though, I wouldn't put him alongside Stalin

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

@@animuslite8809 Mussolini's Italy had an extremely low rate of "victims" as the original poster describes it. The amount of people arrested, jailed, and killed was in the thousands, not hundreds of thousands, thousands. And as far as the brutal street battles in the beginning and end of fascist Italy, just as many if not more fascists and their leftist allies died as did communists etc. If it weren't for allying with Germany, we would all view fascist Italy with a different, more accurate lense. Instead it's all emotional response to guilty by association.

[@animuslite8809]

@@BaltimoresBerzerker I agree

[@kinderlokker0306]

I will never understand how a man could sell his own country & live so lavish while his people die from hunger smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@benthompson7202]

Pure Evil

[@charlinmugova2437]

Welcome to Africa

[@SolomomMamman]

TIA( this is Africa)

[@scottn322]

They honor him not for the man, but what the man appears to represent; wealth, extravagance, respect. Things that, at least on the surface level, most people would aspire to have.

[@tubester4567]

The thing many of these dictators provide is law and order, and stability. It was noted in the video after he was removed, crime and corruption became normal, there was no rule of law or stability, Different political parties and tribes started fighting each other for power. Average people can look back and see the positives of his rule. Same thing has happened in many countries from Iraq to Libya.

[@Vide0Browser]

That is why USA should leave 3rd world nations to develop on their own. They are not at a stage where democracy can be a viable option. They are probably a few hundred years behind and need to start from the imperial age that the Western nations have already gone through.

[@tubester4567]

@@Vide0Browser They do for the most part. The US gets involved when those countries start attacking others, or fostering terrorism which is a threat to everybody.

[@girlgarde]

@@Vide0Browser It certainly feels that way, that they aren't ready for democracy as that system of government always ends up failing as it becomes corrupt, some guy gets voted in and doesn't step down when his term in office ends and becomes a dictator that rules until the day he dies of old age or is killed or gets deposed by the next guy who becomes dictator.

[@lot110]

@@Vide0Browser besides all the stealing of the natural resources

[@liamsmith2340]

Let's face it, does Africa ever have an honest leader, and not a criminal. I believe the people of Africa don't even know what a good leader is.

[@vaughnedwards1724]

Jerry Rawlings,Nelson Mandela,among the few..

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

@@vaughnedwards1724 - they’re hardly current.

[@vaughnedwards1724]

@@mandywalkden-brown7250 truth it's so sad all the potential wasted...

[@scottjohnson5307]

Jomo kenyatta, haile selassie go down the rabbit hole to seeking truth there are leaders like anything else on this marble wicked still remains as well as righteous sides are taken sides are chosen

[@scottjohnson5307]

They should of stopped this dictatorship but money runs everything, what a jerk

[@TracyA123]

By far my favorite video on KZbin! So fascinating and so beautifully done! Love this video!!👍☺

[@lanagorgeous9485]

The French could have taken him out if they wanted to. This reminds me of the Christopher Walken, The Dogs of War.....to bad they didn't get a merc with a heart to take this guy out and find one decent person in that country to set up a real government. Apparently the French loved this monster!

[@SuzieQ90]

This is just my observation but I actually think him receiving so many accolades is because he was helping the French, British Iran, China ect. Extract Uranium from his country and multiple other African countries like Congo. He was teaching them how the earth grows the mineral. Where to find it, how to spot it how to use it ect. Basically giving them valuable info. That's why they ignored his dictatorship. He was an asset to them.

[@brianrichards7006]

Central Africa has had the bad luck to have had many brutal dictators, both black (Idi Amin, et al) and white, (King Leopold II). Even today, one wonders how the people of many of the countries in Central and South Africa tolerate their leaders and life conditions.

[@JustDaniel6764]

I thought ‘King Leopold’ ran a pretty hands off operation.

[@catherinenayiga9537]

Idi Amin was from Uganda...please get more knowledge. East Africa.. movies are usually fictious to increase on sales ...

[@JacquesMare]

@@JustDaniel6764 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@TracyA123]

Wow! You're a great story teller man! Never new about this guy. How fascinating! Not surprised the French tolerated this guy but nobody could back him after killing children omg. The end of the video was literally picture perfect! So well done!☺👌

[@theravenseye9443]

Thanks - that's one of the first videos I made - I always thought it was a fascinating story...Glad you liked it.

[@barrydysert2974]

AGREED !:-) 💜🙏⚡️

[@matty6848]

No me neither up until this video.

[@VeganV5912]

@@theravenseye9443 Suriname 🇸🇷 , South America, dictator. Desire Delano "Desi" Bouterse. If you want. Dumb dictator

[@VeganV5912]

@@theravenseye9443 I do. I love Suriname, I remember everything, I was little. Aluminium shut down, dumb dictator !!!!

[@mikaelsimble382]

Great video, interesting and well researched.

[@brokkrep]

You just gained a subscriber. Good job, sir!

[@uzaiyaro]

In. Fucking. Sane. I’ve got no words. My eyes are about popping out of my head. My brain just can’t comprehend that someone like this could exist.

[@GrumpyL5]

Welcome to the '70s

[@mikepastor.k6233]

Look up Idi Amin. They are like twins in their tyranny

[@virginiaconnor8350]

I bet Dr. Aruna Kilananni would've loved him.

[@nondelusional]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmK5iKylnKh8o9E

[@amphiptered.5355]

Stories like this reminds me that there is no justice. No karma. He was a monster but he was lauded as a great leader. Makes me fear for my own country given how things are right now.

[@geraldfriend256]

Karma is not guaranteed. More of a human construct.

[@FlagAnthem]

the price of freedom is constant vigilance

[@valleyresident]

@@FlagAnthem you're right. it's crushing. you never get a real moment of peace. in fact i'm not convinced peace actually exists. just a dream.

[@Not-Ap]

Karma happens in your next life not in your current. Whatever his past life karma was is what allowed him to become what he did in this lifetime. Idk why western people think karma is something that will happen later in someone's life... that's not how it works at all. He very well might pay or is paying but you won't be around to see it happen. Karma is karma not a public execution arena before a angry mob.

[@geraldfriend256]

@@Not-Ap We conflate karma and kismet, and still have not tried to understand what kismet is about. People say karma to me and their check engine light flashes red .It is something people say to placate themselves when wronged, like telling someonr they will go to hell.

[@kirtknierim3687]

Horrifying content, delivered with compassion and professionalism. Thank you RE.

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@killerdinamo08]

Hahaha, he made Ceausescu look like a drooling toddler over him at #5:23 😂.

[@acommenterhere1000]

Ceausescu was a drooling toddler, he could even become a cobbler. Really have to wonder about Ceausescu's IQ, like was it at the level of a functioning adult?

[@killerdinamo08]

@@acommenterhere1000 Say it to his face and he would prove your point ☠.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Excellent episode Sir!!!🙏👍👻

[@theravenseye9443]

Thank You

[@poetcomic1]

The C.A.R. is so wretched that the rule of this monster can be looked back to fondly as the good old days. That tells you all you need to know about the place.

[@ulrichkristensen4087]

Its a shithole

[@JXC25]

This channel is incredible.

[@jakespoon5549]

3k subscribers ? should be 3 million.

[@BobSuicidalPenguin]

How can you can this guy was someone to admire?

[@Hurricane0721]

Bokassa is up there with Idi Amin in being a deranged, ruthless, and evil African dictator.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Idi amin was much much much worse.

[@Mr.cladmaniac]

Idi Amin is devil incarnate

[@delatroy]

Great narration and editing ✌️

[@louiekiwi]

Nothing unusual about eating human flesh in Central Africa. One of the last unspoken taboos.

[@mushmush4980]

what

[@toddbennett7157]

@@mushmush4980 HE SAID; "NOTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT EATING HUMAN FLESH IN CENTRAL AFRICA! ONE OF THE LAST UNSPOKEN TABOOS"!!!

[@cminor3016]

I'm surprised youtube didn't censor this. Thank you, you are brave

[@Straswa]

Great vid Raven's Eye. "Best Farmer" lol

[@robertlin7333]

For the metadata, there was more than one cannibal Tyrant in Africa, that's why I don't remember them all. It is sort of the same reason I don't try to remember who all America's Oligarchs are. What is the point when they are not held accountable?

[@rackroll4405]

A seven star Field Marshall? That is mighty impressive.

[@chrishenniker5944]

The banquet was made by McDahmers. For all the extravagance, he ate fast food. You had to be fast before he can eat you.

[@JacquesMare]

😁😆😆😁😁

[@johneeeemarry34]

My Grandfather was at the banquet.. he told me fast food was optional. He had Wendy’s….. buttocks, in a bun, with ketchup.

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

⚡Nicely done!!

[@DaveSCameron]

Hallo there. I've just discovered your superb channel here, who knows how on earth YT throws random channels up to random viewers, (and this is possibly the least frustrating action this fully automated, greedy and dictatorial platform performs..) but in this case I'm grateful and am now doing the standard binge watch of your fare and storing up a couple of your most attractive playlists for a rainy ☔ day. I'm appreciating the depth of research and work you clearly put in to these uploads and you are a channel true to the original idea offering information and education of the highest order without bias or agenda and I felt the need to write this in praise and support of you after a particularly depressing few hours witnessing some appalling and often offensive uploads and comments across Utoob and I was moved to comment. Thank you, well done and please stick around Sir.

[@1joshjosh1]

I can see he has adorned himself with European inventions and Innovations.

[@vizagothx7294]

dont they all..

[@1joshjosh1]

@@vizagothx7294 That they do. Or you can put some grass and sticks you found on the ground on your head and call it royalty.

[@wowso4]

He was a sell out

[@mrslam9837]

Good informative video.

[@theravenseye9443]

Glad you liked it - As a new channel it really helps to know....!!

[@sdsfgsty]

When I was a kid, I was shocked to hear of a law that if you killed one you'll be executed, but if you killed more than one, you'll put in jail. But I'm even more surprised in this case because the villain became a hero.

[@sergiomejia7720]

He was called a cannibal and ran with it. The chefs that were flown in would've said something about making human flesh. So yeah this guy was a poser but too many people feared him to say anything

[@mushmush4980]

If they already prepped and processed it beforehand they unfortunately might just mistake it for other meat Esspecially if they were told it was something exotic like lion, because nobody would expect him to be so disturbed fucking depressing if you think about it

[@Teresa-L.2024]

Just one of many in Africa's sordid history. No wonder its a continent largely still in the Dark Ages. The wildlife seems tame in comparison.

[@vaughnreedjr6592]

Africa has never had a dark age.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

@@vaughnreedjr6592 It never got lighter to compare.

[@JcoleMc]

@@virginiaconnor8350 Mali empire .

[@nondelusional]

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[@langtonmwanza6689]

Okay, very strange comment much

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

That guy was very likely put in power thanks to the support of France, who was meddling in African's affairs like crazy at the time.

[@admirekashiri6651]

Exactly

[@michaelcrouch8783]

Wow I am taking a back by that and thanks for the program fascinating

[@_Breakdown]

*Great short documentary Mr. Raven*

[@theravenseye9443]

You are welcome !

[@Belano1911]

Serving your citizens takes on a new meaning.

[@MkandaGnarlyyy]

This channel is awesome! I would to see a Mugabe video next. I'm a big aviation and martime enthusiast but videos like these are a breath of fresh air. Your channel will blow up real soon! Book it ✅✅✅

[@langtonmwanza6689]

Watch Today I Found Out piece on Mugabe....I don't think he's on the level to be on this channel though, he ddnt eat people or beat kids to death, well atleast not in the open....yes I'm Zimbabwean, I have actually met him once😅

[@mr.niceguy1812]

I love learning about things I'd never heard of! Cheers! Edit: Of course i have to subscribe now.

[@pharmchick027]

Very interesting documentary, well done

[@theravenseye9443]

Many thanks!

[@ttenkrut]

WoW, what a life. 17 wives. Great upload!!

[@dougbrowne9890]

Now you know where the idea of Kings and Queens comes from.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

Obviously proof that royalty was invented by Africans

[@Scr3minL0rdDin0saur]

Your voice is so soothing ☺️

[@RereTVview]

Thank you for the education

[@billbergin8953]

A very good dumentary about an intetesting and tragic episode in the history of yet another impoverished, exploited and violence ridden African country. Yesterday, a notion of paradox. In the midst of all this confusion there is a perceived order and discipline described as a Golden Age. One has to ask the question: is what replaced his rule been any better? So often developing countries are engulfed in these problems. The cry may have been to get rid of him. The answer might be...be careful what you wish for...

[@cmonkey63]

In an alternate universe, Bokassa is exiled to an uninhabited volcanic island above the Arctic Circle, to live out his days freezing to death while subsisting on a diet of diluted Starbuck's coffee and expired Twinkies. Now you're asking: Do Twinkies ever expire?

[@Packless1]

...Bouvet-island would be fine...! ;-)

[@justforrow]

I'm pretty sure he's already suffering that punishment in our dimension. The island's name is hell, and it's likely punishing him well.

[@DR3ADER1]

And that's the most ironic part of it all. Napoleon Bonaparte, a despot who Bokassa idolised, was exiled to the Ascension Islands and died alone in poverty under mediocre conditions. Tens of Thousands of Kilometers away from his family, out of sight and out of mind from the French People. Bokassa was allowed to live in his crumbling, Ozymandian-esque palace with his Wives and Children and lived for far longer after he was ousted from power than Napoleon ever did.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Excellent episode of a horrible ruler and regime, thank you Sir!!!🙏😢❣️

[@MagnumDrex]

6:55 We can see Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam attending the coronation ceremony. First Prime Minister of Mauritius. Thanks for these archival images.

[@fonziebulldog5786]

Africa and their often strange leaders have all to many times shouted for independence and when they had it all bad things in the book have happened. I years ago was watching a documentary from Africa where a European company helped them to build a large railway across big parts of one country. When the company left and all was working they returned some years later to find a horrible sight. The Africa population had scraped the trains for parts to sell and large parts of the railway was sold for the worth in the iron. And the leader for the country was suddenly shifting side and was wanted for crimes against humanity.Weird in to many ways, rather often.

[@NoahBodze]

Colonialists were actually time travelers from the future now forced to apologize for bringing the African into modernity. The way they kill each other everywhere they go…

[@adotintheshark4848]

Look at what Mugabe did to what was once Rhodesia..transformed a country capable of feeding the entire continent into a backwards, impoverished hellhole.

[@glammednoir895]

What country? You’re just mentioning the continent

[@drdrew3]

“It’s good to be king”

[@owensweetland342]

When you feel powerless it's only natural that you seek power. Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@Americanpatriot-zo2tk]

Power corrupts, an absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@RevolutionarySM]

Jean Bedel Bokassa was only able to do all this because French imperialism needed him. He was pro-French and so the former colonialists kept the Central African Republic under their influence. The western world did not care about brutal dictators, as long as they took the side of the west in the Cold War. Jean Bedel Bokassa was a pro-western tyrant and only removed because he went too far for western imperialism.

[@trenelljernigan2086]

Instead of being a proud African man it seems as though he was so enamored of French life styles a throne made of gold, French style chateau and a european crown 👑 he loved Europeans more than his own people.

[@Funvtv666]

Broken system allowed a butcher to die of a heart attack

[@johnl5350]

He complained about his exile? What a wonderful opportunity for poetic justice.