The remains of Central African Republic's imperial past

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  • @sion8
    @sion8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    When I first heard that this happened I couldn't believe it, I mean most dictators seem satisfied with being President-for-Life, but this guy couldn't be like the others apparently.

    • @alexleung6858
      @alexleung6858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Without the support of France, he would not be 'crowned'.

    • @Eazycree
      @Eazycree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@alexleung6858 Also without France his father would be alive the french killed his father and one of his siblings and he joined the french army

    • @demonhunter635
      @demonhunter635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      TheCommunistRationalist
      How does one be a “communist” and a “rationalist”?
      That’s like being a pessimistic optimist. Doesn’t exist.

    • @Eazycree
      @Eazycree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@demonhunter635 Well I used to be a conservative until one day I was debating a commie and got completely destroyed with facts and it was obvious the commie knew more about capitalism than I did so I bought a copy of das capital read the book did more investigation into communism and I changed my beliefs because only an idiot would think our current economic system is sustainable

    • @demonhunter635
      @demonhunter635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      TheCommunistRationalist
      So you lost an argument and decided to be a commie. My my my, people really are sheep aren’t they?
      Don’t worry, once you graduate high school you’ll learn how things work bud.

  • @jhulvincentcalabia4784
    @jhulvincentcalabia4784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +555

    The French army killed his Dad and brother then he grew up joining the French armed forces and developed some French fetishes? Dafaq man?!

    • @illyrianprinc100
      @illyrianprinc100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      Well Napoleon's dad was a Corsican nationalist and separatist (so was Napoleon until his early 20s) and then went on to become the emperor of France, so yeah stranger things have happened.

    • @KayraTheNomad
      @KayraTheNomad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      that's the magic of france. they are no different then any other imperialist power, even still an empire, but they are not hated.

    • @revolutionalist
      @revolutionalist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Lots of people want to emulate Napoleon no matter what nationality

    • @jhulvincentcalabia4784
      @jhulvincentcalabia4784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Then Napoleon ended up being pummeled by all Nations in Europe.

    • @Hans.Dewitt
      @Hans.Dewitt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @kimi Russia's winter*

  • @ZeroSnake
    @ZeroSnake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    All his rare items/clothes were imported. Imagine if he put that money into his economy. :facepalm:

    • @generalaccount6531
      @generalaccount6531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Inferiority Complex at its worst. The "emperor" reminds me of those guys wearing fake Gucci and gold chains waiting to buy lottery tickets from a cheap liquor store.

    • @abhishekchadh
      @abhishekchadh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      At any given point in time any emperor splurging extravagantly throughout the course of history never said that I'd rather live a simple life and invest in my economy or help the needful.

    • @USSSfr33d0m
      @USSSfr33d0m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He sell uranium and diamond to French so...

    • @Ragerian
      @Ragerian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @///AMG You call him Uncle Tom, I call him seeing the writing on the wall

    • @thabiso5792
      @thabiso5792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @fullmetaljaco have you heard of Botswana or Rwanda

  • @hillcrestprofessionalservi3502
    @hillcrestprofessionalservi3502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    The french president supported his coronation and two years later sent troops into the country to overthrow him

    • @HuszOG
      @HuszOG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Makabayang Pilipinas There are not any more free countries in the world. The last one was U.S.A and it's libertarian spirit died when the federal reserve was created. Now everyone serves the banks.

    • @orangecat3021
      @orangecat3021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sefred7 the French called him a stupid idiot do you really think they supported him?

    • @guavaguavanomi5441
      @guavaguavanomi5441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Master race much? Keep your so called freedom and democracy on your own soil warmonger race! We don't need your help!? Self interest Disguised as humanitarian or financial or military etc as HELP? PWEEEE!! 🤮

    • @robertlevine2827
      @robertlevine2827 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Then-President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing was very friendly w/Bokassa, but France's foreign ministry hated him and felt, rightly, that it was a total embarrassment for France to be supporting this monster. They argued for years to d'Estaing to cut ties with him. D'Estaing finally listened when Bokassa personally beat to death a teenage protester against his rule. Incidentally, the protest was over the fact that he required all schoolchildren to wear uniforms sold by a company owned by his wife at exorbitant prices.

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  • @tomasfialhoafonso2257
    @tomasfialhoafonso2257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    Was it just me or did anyone else notice when he said “he over took power in 1996”?

  • @hayaglamazonluxe
    @hayaglamazonluxe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    You know what? Fair play to his son for agreeing to take part and going back to the Imperial palace. He could have easily ran away to Europe but in a way, he is owning who his father was for better or worse. I respect that kind of accountability and by forging a role in the new CAR.

    • @cherriebrown6737
      @cherriebrown6737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Haya Glamazon that is not his accountability to take. Do you take accountability for your parents decisions?

    • @151605able
      @151605able 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You reckon Haya???

    • @hayaglamazonluxe
      @hayaglamazonluxe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cherriebrown6737 In a situation like Bokassa's, he would be seen as other citizens as complicit and having to bear some sort of burden even though none of this is his fault. African culture is big on collective identity. I am proud of him for not running away when it could have been the easy thing to do.

    • @w.urlitzer1869
      @w.urlitzer1869 ปีที่แล้ว

      what brand is his new car?

  • @Burner_Acc
    @Burner_Acc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Watching fools like Bokassa and Mobutu makes me appreciate Nyerere of Tanzania even more. The unsung hero for Africa.

  • @muhammedarafahsalim8744
    @muhammedarafahsalim8744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Whenever a dictator is overthrown the country usually goes in long term turmoil

    • @Sama7941
      @Sama7941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What is currently happening to my country, ZIMBABWE.

    • @hussien04
      @hussien04 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's exactly what happened in my country Iraq

  • @archipiratta
    @archipiratta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm surprised nobody burst out laughing when he read that proclamation 🤣

    • @mohamedenahmed9799
      @mohamedenahmed9799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe they didn’t want to know what 600f in the oven feels like

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    It's sad to see that the same people who deposed a despot are now wishing for another one.

  • @priscamolotsi
    @priscamolotsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    At 00:34: He did not take over in 1996, Mr. Reporter! Terrible mistake!

    • @francisxavier9736
      @francisxavier9736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      priscamolotsi so you heard it. 🤗🤗🤗

    • @sethk2384
      @sethk2384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I noticed that too

    • @kelvinw.1384
      @kelvinw.1384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He also spent 30 million not 20 million. Over 5 million was for the jewels.

    • @alexcholagh8330
      @alexcholagh8330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      his son took over the line in succession in 1996.

  • @febrian0079
    @febrian0079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Jean-Bédel Bokassa: "In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Central African Republic will be reorganized into the first Central African Empire, for a safe and secure society

  • @YissanE
    @YissanE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    With all its own defect. That was the last of a stable govt. Many times if we take political advice outside of the country.. it is never for your benefit... It is for the benefit of the advising country.
    ...after him tribalism, nepotism came back...
    Thereafter, it's chaos.
    Our present democratic government are no different. It's the same with a different outlook and more better public image.

  • @opdjasin
    @opdjasin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    100 kids were murdered because they refused to wear school uniforms with his image on them but he still somehow managed to spend the last years of his life as a normal person outside the prison.

  • @fral-homosexualrebel9888
    @fral-homosexualrebel9888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I love the Central African Republic. I hope that the conflict between the rebel groups ends, that poverty diminishes and this beautiful country resurfaces. Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela.
    Amo a la República Centroafricana. Espero que el conflicto entre los grupos rebeldes termine, que la pobreza disminuya y este hermoso país resurja. Saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela.

    • @vtron9832
      @vtron9832 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm from Puerto Rico and half Venezuelan, I know what is happening there now, I hope that you guys get better too

    • @shawnreed7876
      @shawnreed7876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I visited Central African Republic July 2018. Such a sad country. Has so much potential but is held back by conflict and corruption. I haven't been to Venezuela, but from what I have read your country is in a similar situation. I hope your country can heal.
      Greetings from America.

    • @lauricedjepeno3087
      @lauricedjepeno3087 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m from central Africa republic and I hope one day I’ll be able to go back and help my people do better

    • @SUNPEOPLEPRODUCTIONS
      @SUNPEOPLEPRODUCTIONS 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Raul you have been ?

  • @flyingisaac2186
    @flyingisaac2186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It is unexpected to read of people nostalgic for Jean-Bedel Bokassa, but I suppose times are very hard there now.

    • @Jeff-gj7ko
      @Jeff-gj7ko 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nostalgia for some kind of stability and pride can really blind people.

  • @nonamedyrseth8571
    @nonamedyrseth8571 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    French operative agents
    Was like: oki this one is dumb enough😭💀

  • @nationalist1910
    @nationalist1910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think the problem is the name of the country.
    Centeral Africa is more of a position on the vast african continent.
    There is no unilateral identity.

    • @firstnamelastname-uw6vq
      @firstnamelastname-uw6vq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The problem are the borders tbh. So many ethnic groups in countries descended from administrative divisions of once upon the time colonies. It's like the Balkans but if all Balkan countries are one republic, bunch of ethnicities, one spark and you have bunch of rebels pushing for more power, fighting each other, foreign powers selling weapons to people who barely have water or food and a powerless republic barely existing only due to support of outside powers. I think the only solution is a radical one, but redrawing the borders. Village by village, town by town. Establishing countries with identities and with western democratic type of government. Otherwise the only thing we'll see in the future for some African countries is civil wars, rebellions and people struggling. I mean their gdp is like 2 billion for a country with like 5 million people. It's sad. Also has many resources. Either strong government to bring order to the country and embrace all ethnicities into the government or balkanization of every rump states in Africa.

  • @onelove-qg7xg
    @onelove-qg7xg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The worst to happen to central Africa..

  • @yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907
    @yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    He only spent 25% of the state budget!? AMATEUR!!!
    *realizes that a few years back his own homeland spent 70% of it's budget 'building' monuments and other shit just because the [at the time] prime minister said so*

  • @denismutabazi
    @denismutabazi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What is ironic is, the French cut off the head of their own king to embrace "égalité, actualité, ... Only to create an emperor in one of the smallest countries in the world.

    • @loreCarbonell
      @loreCarbonell 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not only they beheaded Louis XVI, they also literally buried his first son and heir in a tower and made him starving to death

  • @davec1615
    @davec1615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    lol the clown put on european royal style clothing and gave his oath in french

    • @crasu3226
      @crasu3226 6 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      since the the central african republic was a former french colony, french is an official language of the central african republic

    • @vtron9832
      @vtron9832 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Besides, there were many pre colonial native languages, and I'm not sure which group Bokassa belonged to. Banda? Baya?

    • @truthjuice4798
      @truthjuice4798 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @jeremylinah8078
      @jeremylinah8078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thatclown hosting inhell shame that boy donthaveajob

    • @StevioGaming1
      @StevioGaming1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Maybe cos they speak French?

  • @donbryant58
    @donbryant58 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Was he also king of all of the animals and all the fish in the sea?
    \

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Don Bryant lmao the Central African Republic didn’t even have a coastline

    • @haroldflowers8182
      @haroldflowers8182 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@fahoodie1852 its a idi amin reference

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Harold flowers
      Uganda intensifies

    • @harveysmith100
      @harveysmith100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think that post was already filled

    • @harveysmith100
      @harveysmith100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @///AMG So you are from CAR

  • @mjelombilini7628
    @mjelombilini7628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    His children ended up, begging for food in the streets of Europe, a very perplexed ignorant man.

    • @jahbless4063
      @jahbless4063 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      mjelo mbilini really?

    • @jonathanm4019
      @jonathanm4019 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I doubt he cares every man for himself

    • @mjelombilini7628
      @mjelombilini7628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jahbless4063 yeah, a relevant source tells all .

    • @jahbless4063
      @jahbless4063 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Pelobello I dint know that’s great 😀

    • @hayaglamazonluxe
      @hayaglamazonluxe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stop lying. His kids are well off and fine.

  • @subsonicwoofer5183
    @subsonicwoofer5183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    How to **NOT** run a country

  • @mikoym8307
    @mikoym8307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This was a cosplay gone wrong!!!!!

  • @carapo66
    @carapo66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    A former French colony? No surprises here. Move along, please.

  • @DoubleMrE
    @DoubleMrE 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I must say that his scepter with the little crown on top is very cool. I mean, he *_was_* a dick, but he did have a really cool scepter.

  • @electricangel4488
    @electricangel4488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    stability can be the greatest virtue for a state. but it is also the most under valued
    people usually dont cling to dictators they cling to the stability they made for them self and there country

  • @stephendetarczynski4246
    @stephendetarczynski4246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I actually thought this would be about the CAR's pre-independence history as a French colony but no mention of this brutal period at all.

    • @Rollify
      @Rollify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is state owned media after all...

    • @YachtRockFiend
      @YachtRockFiend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did you read the title of the video?

  • @BookofFuture
    @BookofFuture 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    He was Probably inspired by Napoleon and Dessalines.

    • @harveysmith100
      @harveysmith100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was inspired by Napoleon, yes.

    • @lilchickennugget8155
      @lilchickennugget8155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Harvey Smith yes ,very much inspired that he had the same people make his outfits.

    • @NapoleonBonaparte5
      @NapoleonBonaparte5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Comparing this fool to Napoleon...

    • @imperator692
      @imperator692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NapoleonBonaparte5 Looks like you would probably do the same as this fool if you had control of a country

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Imperator
      The only difference was that Napoleon could actually run a country and defeat a continent 4 times, as opposed to getting overthrown after killing children over school uniforms

  • @janreyabuan970
    @janreyabuan970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Back when some African leaders are like comedy sitcoms.

  • @senorswordfish6019
    @senorswordfish6019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That "coronation palace" looks like a typical Sports gym in my city.

    • @Henry-Bukenya
      @Henry-Bukenya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was later turned into a sports house

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    • @LordDim1
      @LordDim1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @praise the swordfish, you damned heretics That’s because they demolished the Coronation Palace after the fall of the empire, and built that

  • @harrybarry4158
    @harrybarry4158 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    France was like, "we won the jackpot. Found the dumbest leader of all time"

  • @makulaeriana7503
    @makulaeriana7503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just wonder everyday wht kind of devil is in our African leader's dear God help us

  • @gangstaworldtv
    @gangstaworldtv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informative

  • @justme-hh4vp
    @justme-hh4vp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why doesn't the presenter mention the lady reporter, she is the first named journalist and the narrator?
    That ceremony was a Poundland version of what the Shah of Iran laid on for his 2500 year empire anniversary.
    They're still trying to calculate the total cost and France did rather well out of that too!

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  • @rickjames21
    @rickjames21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember my Dad telling me about this. Thats how you ball out son.

  • @sylviawilson9688
    @sylviawilson9688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the man who beheaded his enemies and stored their heads in the freezer.

  • @Eza_yuta
    @Eza_yuta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Central Africa is so poor even vandals can't afford spray paint and use black crayon instead to vandalize old building.

    • @Tunawesmake
      @Tunawesmake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's engraving. It's more permanent/harder to correct than paint ☺️

    • @Eza_yuta
      @Eza_yuta 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tunawesmake That's evil

  • @masawemcfranco7111
    @masawemcfranco7111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    got to say he can really pull of the look though.
    he's a monster but credit where credits due

    • @deepfreezer1583
      @deepfreezer1583 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just like George bush (weapons of mass destruction)

    • @shanetonkin2850
      @shanetonkin2850 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @deep freezer - no, not really.

  • @Farhan917
    @Farhan917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Africa is cursed with selfishness and greed.

  • @JJMHigner
    @JJMHigner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's not even that the title had been assumed its the WAY he went about doing it. A dress uniform and a simple yet elegant ceremony would have been fine, as well as a basic Napoleonic-style throne and constitutional council to aide in his reign. This would have been a more thoughtful or (at least tolerable) event if anyone was going to do this at all.

  • @aymarafan7669
    @aymarafan7669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    First learned about Bokassa from Geography Now actually.

  • @semkoops
    @semkoops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I hope the people of the CAF will have a better future. It's sad to see a country so rich in natural beauty and caring people decline like that.

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  • @mishacknthane1060
    @mishacknthane1060 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When Idi Amin saw bokassa for the first time, he was angry to be outshined by bokasa who wore military attire glittered from neck were medals which he had bestowed on himself, Amin quickly ordered his dressers to knit the similar uniform

  • @ragsaea9609
    @ragsaea9609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lol, the irony is he want to restore the country to former glory(empire)😂😂😂

  • @alfredhitchcock45
    @alfredhitchcock45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Lots of mud streets. There aren’t any concrete roads?

    • @Eza_yuta
      @Eza_yuta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They think concrete road is not necessary there.

    • @HAGERTHEYAZIN
      @HAGERTHEYAZIN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      mel saint most roads are concrete, but it has been covered by sand.

    • @yourneighbourhooddoomer
      @yourneighbourhooddoomer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's Africa what do you expect?

    • @rsouthafrican7516
      @rsouthafrican7516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @malcolm caden only place wakanda is is in the dreams of some Africans...

    • @arturocevallossoto5203
      @arturocevallossoto5203 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Upkeep for paved roads is VERY expensive in very humid areas.

  • @millardlim981
    @millardlim981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Nostalgia for dictators and sultanistic rulers. We see that in many parts of the world. In recent years there's even nostalgia for Middle Eastern dictators - Saddam Hussain, Moammar Qaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, etc. People always yearn for a "golden past" that is seen to be much better than the chaotic, mediocre, and corrupt present. CAR today is drenched in civil war between Christians and Muslims. It is natural I suppose for the simple people there to look back to a Muslim self-proclaimed emperor who was enthroned and crowned in a Roman Catholic cathedral with a Roman Catholic cardinal present.

    • @owenbeharry8478
      @owenbeharry8478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      mlim there is nostalgia of the Marcos regime the Philippine and Soviet Union for people of the Soviet block.

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    • @carltomacruz9138
      @carltomacruz9138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bokassa was Muslim?

    • @jackyex
      @jackyex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@carltomacruz9138 He was only for a short period during 1976 after meeting with Gaddafi, but later that same year he converted back to catholicism.

  • @dingdong5908
    @dingdong5908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It feels like watching watching a birthday without anyone attending it

  • @Duwor
    @Duwor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:52 that little girl said it all 😭😂🙅🏿‍♂️ "Imagine we are hungry in this country and this useless man is wasting money anyhow." She said, "I think he needs a psychiatrist."

    • @techmoso4880
      @techmoso4880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Korvah Duwor Jr I believe that’s Bokassa’s son the one who gave the tour of the palace later in the vid

    • @LordDim1
      @LordDim1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Techmoso No, the one who gave the tour was Prince Jean-Serge Bokassa. The boy at 0:52 is his brother, Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa II, Bokassa’s heir and the current claimant to the Central African throne

  • @rob098890
    @rob098890 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The French still colonize Africa, namely by controlling one of its major currencies, the franc

  • @dreemlite5950
    @dreemlite5950 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His son would make a great Emperor and leader

  • @byakuya_Hanqhal
    @byakuya_Hanqhal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    10:29 jack Bauer

  • @johnroddy8756
    @johnroddy8756 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What part of Imperial did he not understand .

  • @antondemidov6206
    @antondemidov6206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The African equivalent of the shah of Iran without trying to modernize the nation first.

  • @kwakukusi8997
    @kwakukusi8997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    oh africa 😢

  • @toobalkain
    @toobalkain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what monarchies were there in the Bokassa empire, there had to be at least two for this to have been an empire, one possibly Bokassa's own kingdom, CAR, but which was the second one, what African king had to accept Bokassa as his uberking?

  • @crowncommunicationventure9729
    @crowncommunicationventure9729 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy took it to a whole new level in terms of insanity

  • @opedunjames4550
    @opedunjames4550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its so funny how they thought he was terrible but yet the country is worse off than it was under him.

  • @larsenvillaranda5862
    @larsenvillaranda5862 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    so you're not ashamed of your father' and his actions? wow

  • @giuseppersa2391
    @giuseppersa2391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Utterly shocking and nothing much has changed

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  • @abbasssabbah9183
    @abbasssabbah9183 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I went there to work and I can assure it the poorest African country and if not the poorest in the world but strange in my 2 years of working there I made huge money the people are really nice and u can see the country was destroyed by greed of its political leaders it Is really a shame and a pitty because the country have huge resources

  • @MBA15able
    @MBA15able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Why don't build up the place again and use it as historical place to visit, in that beautiful country and make some money just like France does and the rest of the Europe

    • @danw4237
      @danw4237 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Question is:
      A.) Do they have any funds to fix the place up?
      B.) Is the CAR in a state (, don't forget, there is a civil war going on right now) that tourist would want to go there?
      My answer would be hard NO for both.

    • @MBA15able
      @MBA15able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danw4237 U got a War going on then you have money.

    • @afroafro2212
      @afroafro2212 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The money is controlled by France 🇫🇷 they can't take the money out any time they want. The

  • @johannesvonmalos7505
    @johannesvonmalos7505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now how should an newly made African empire be run for the betterment of the nation?

  • @KewlkatNDahat
    @KewlkatNDahat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What I get here is , looking at the end results today, country doesn’t seem better off after his ruling ended. Even the opposition agree somebody that is firm like this bloke was but without the extra would be better today.

  • @MK-nd2ij
    @MK-nd2ij 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ridiculous indeed

  • @Henry-Bukenya
    @Henry-Bukenya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Every person has a dream and Pinto's dream was to be an emperor

  • @oJoJo
    @oJoJo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Kangz n shiet

  • @cjgangi0123
    @cjgangi0123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How did they do a story on Bokassa and leave out the cannibalism?

  • @ebbek6065
    @ebbek6065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We should also hold the enabler’s accountable. In this case he wouldn’t have gotten to this position without France playing the Architect. Nothing gets done without the colonizer’s blessings. Notice when they were done with him, they threw him out right away.

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  • @GB-um4pw
    @GB-um4pw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    LONG LIVE THE CENTRAL AFRICAN EMPIRE!

    • @zehra730
      @zehra730 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish some traditional African monarchy had survived well and became a ''respectable and serious country''. Ethiopia could be something like that, but the dream ended up very badly there...

    • @yourescum3068
      @yourescum3068 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zehra730 there are some still in Uganda

    • @SantiagoGeffen
      @SantiagoGeffen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zehra730 What about Eswatini 🇸🇿

  • @zelnando
    @zelnando 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Baby Doc from Haiti chilling @1:22!!!

  • @USSSfr33d0m
    @USSSfr33d0m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How much uranium and diamond you got from him?

  • @teddyambachew2073
    @teddyambachew2073 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    why french colonies are still in trouble than the british one ?

  • @bazle64
    @bazle64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    French calling others "imperialist" is a big joke

  • @rfk3348
    @rfk3348 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is Jean-Bedel Bokassa's throne ?

    • @LordDim1
      @LordDim1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It disappeared, but a few years ago the internal skeleton of it was found, and it now stands as a monument in Bangui

  • @wanrazul
    @wanrazul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8:20 "skep-ter"? should be "sep-ter" the c is silent

  • @tkautzor
    @tkautzor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    the Oubangui river doesn't cross through the heart of the C.A.R., it flows on its edge, marking the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • @eternalme6077
    @eternalme6077 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who are the ANCIENT BLOOD LINES that are PUTTING this person in this position, these
    ( Dark Ones ) are the REAL POWER
    BEHIND IT ALL!!! Thank you so much for Posting this WONDERFUL Vid..............🎸💚

  • @samnedumedja5323
    @samnedumedja5323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't condone Bokasa coronating himself emperor, but why a foreign country would come to overthrow a leader of another country? I don't understand. Why would France overthrow him?

    • @gabrielabdul8372
      @gabrielabdul8372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      France has always been a problem in Africa but very few people understand this fact!

  • @sahrsamuelsesay3800
    @sahrsamuelsesay3800 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He was a good man

  • @gideonhorwitz9434
    @gideonhorwitz9434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Napoleon wannabe

  • @TheHippoBLT
    @TheHippoBLT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    lol what a guy

  • @AcquahBaiden
    @AcquahBaiden 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    he took power 11 years earlier... in a1996? How can you make that mistake in your opening address?

  • @Jeff-gj7ko
    @Jeff-gj7ko 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:32 And selling Tintin in the Congo as well. What irony.

    • @BladimirButin
      @BladimirButin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s not Congo you uneducated mf you must be American. It’s Central African Republic

  • @prokopanda
    @prokopanda ปีที่แล้ว

    Bokassa was the solution to this problems the central African republic is a complete mess today.

  • @chijiokekennedyanoka4844
    @chijiokekennedyanoka4844 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    am not in support of dictatorship but if he had still been in charge, i think the country will be well better of

    • @TheLeaf50
      @TheLeaf50 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Would be worse

    • @TheZellars
      @TheZellars 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you educated are you out of your damn mind under dictatorship you idiot

    • @ChibiViolin
      @ChibiViolin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheZellars Many nations have prospered under dictatorship.

    • @FreddyTams
      @FreddyTams 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Leadership just keep getting worse

    • @Mutebi2018
      @Mutebi2018 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Am a Uganda but 90% of Ugandans admire Idi Amin.

  • @greedyweeb8368
    @greedyweeb8368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The old men at the end are woke. Wish they had more of them

  • @Solisium-Channel
    @Solisium-Channel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well that was embarrassing

  • @Handle_your_scandal
    @Handle_your_scandal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A quarter of the state's budget? Trash

  • @DummheitTuhtWe
    @DummheitTuhtWe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The coronation were sponsored by france 😂😂😂

  • @theccpisaparasite8813
    @theccpisaparasite8813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What happened to all his "imperial regalia".

  • @philipterzian4581
    @philipterzian4581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I miss the Emperor Bokassa, and the Central African Empire still lives in the hearts of my fellow Bokassans.

  • @manfromthepast
    @manfromthepast 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was that Duvalier at 1:22?

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  • @houstonburnside8985
    @houstonburnside8985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So African palpatine.

  • @SenorTucano
    @SenorTucano 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To be an empire you must control external territory. The CAR fails that test.

  • @DP-ic2lz
    @DP-ic2lz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    France helped fund his coronation btw

  • @MattCabalitan
    @MattCabalitan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is 1966 until his downfalls in 1979 the relationship of France Republic was over and the French soldiers took Bangui and release David dacko in prison dacko was released in 1979

  • @cedricliggins7528
    @cedricliggins7528 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:22 Baby Doc. President Duvalier of Haiti.