The Craziest Dictator You've Never Heard of | Jean-Bédel Bokassa 

NewAfrica please do one on Ghadafi. His legacy needs to be heard

Protip - don’t put African in your title. It creates a negative association with that word. ‘Craziest dictator’ is a good enough descriptor.

@@itumo2645 Well said. Point taken. Title updated ❤🙌🏿

NewAfrica >>> Thank you!

You need to cover the first dictator of equatorial Guinea. His own tale is even weirder. He is the uncle of the present dictator of the small country.

🤣😂🤣😂 kya bola bhai!!.. Cosplay mahanga pada

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Lmfao!🤣

when larping hits different

Most expensive cosplay in entire history.

LOL. OF ALL THE THINGS HE CAN BE CALLED, COSPLAYER IS ACTUALLY REALLY ACCURATE HAHAHA

@@vcxlll Napoleon cosplayers are the worst kinds if dictators.

Indeed. Well put. Who knew dictators could also have a cosplayer interest?

Even while his story seems quite sad, he was a cruel dictator that killed many people in horrific ways, including 100 children over not wearing school uniforms, and plundered the people of their money. The Central African Republic is truly better off without him. That said, cosplaying 10/10

I'm from guinea which in the west but i did hear about it.

I just want to know where that golden rooster throne is now lol bruh was looking like a old Dolamite VHS cover.

He Has Horthy's Soul In Him😂🎉

he is ahead of his time Bridgerton should have hired him

😂😂😂😂LOL yo

Admiral of the Ubangi and Congo river.

Exactly! I can't understand how so many leaders could just give up their people's real interests, just to increase their personal power...

@@Comrade_Nils how is that a question

@@vherox3826 It's not a question

He would got killed by another French puppet to take his place. France or anyother colonist power doesn't want strong countries with educated people.

@@ikielinsesi1843 victim mentality at its finest...

This meme will always never get old

#GoodComment

Most fitting usage of this meme format I've seen in a while.

I love how you got a heart from the uploader XD

Epic.

I bet he began to read Napoleon's biography, saw the countless battles and political intrigues and was like "Nah, i'll just skip to the coronation part"

Yeah at leaat havea Empire

Atleast Napoleon had a reason to build an empire...

Would you want to be an emperor if you'd rule a nation? Yes you do, everyone would want to be an emperor. This guy actually went through with it.

@@dangerjoe8911 not everyone, most people would likely choose a political position that actually have any political power, monarchs nowadays have none. Rather than an emperor I would personally like to serve as Secretary General of *insert only political party in his country * to make it less grandiose so people wouldn't protest.

"The Courts can eat my shorts! The House can eat my blouse! Peru can eat my shoe! I declare myself emperor!" Bokassa, probably

@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 sam o'nella fan?😂😂😂

@@alexanderwilliamhassaikay Yes.

Also broke: your 3rd world economy after your lavish million-dollar coronation ceremony.

Hey OJ you knoe how to slice it😂

The liddle admirable indeed.

It still is

Two horses of the carriage also died, forcing Bokassa to finish in a car. The narcissist completely ridiculed himself.

Brooo lmao

ha ha ha

literally the same mentality passed on

Yea that’s the delusion you fall into after years of slavery, colonialism and exploitation. So, yes! That was a great example. The rapper and the dictator have something in common.

@@yannickwessidjam2036 ????

Frenchaboo?

@@Grityom baguetteaboo*

@@user-it2hc6bx5t nice

A ouiaboo

Frogaboo

I thought that was about Idi Amin?

@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 No it was about Bokassa, Dacko seems to have considered him a useful idiot rather than a threat

@@Zeruel3 He really underestimated him lol

The same happened to obote with Amin, he underestimated him🤣🤣🤣. Most civilian leaders are so naive and get easily fooled by the salutes and respect military men give them 🤣🤣

@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 No, Amin was actually interested in improving his country, which he did, unlike Bokassa who became a self-defeating sellout.

He could also pay for his own coronation

Yeah also he literally was just copiying Napoleon instead of like a smart move or intelligent thing to do

In a few words: Napoleon made his country great, this guy didn't

@@youdontknowme5980 he copied his coronario, but he didn't copy his actions instead

Napolean fucked up my contry Portugal

If I was a Billionaire I would buy a Ramdom Island in the middle of the Pacific ocean Expand the island by Daming parts of the surrounding water Terraform the Island make it bigger buy exotic Animals and Plants to make the Island Habitable and Start building Ports a Small air port a Military base in a Artificial Island Build Houses apartments Modern Farms Government Buildings and Monument and turn the Island a Country and make use the Libra the French Frank and the Australian Dollar as the Official Money

@@v.7726 Well most billionaires use punctuation.

@@kevCjm6dhhihiujkbbhjhvcfyhuiij Well, he's no billionaire to begin with

@@v.7726 Just download the videogame.

@@v.7726 just play eu4 or smth smh. No need to be a billionare, just a few dollars.

Nice 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

All that money 😒

That scam has been around since the late 19th century

Lmao 🤣

CN I buy some elk but only if it’s entirely possible

Hey you I know you

Lmao

wearing a girls sailors school uniform with hello kitty backpack...you made my day

CAR anime time

@@richardbradley2335 remember Japan wasn’t always like that until it was defeated in WW2 they had totally different culture much more right wing and patriarchy

Man had mad drips 😂 at the cost of his peoples and country 😂😅

@@godsoldier6240 of course i know that...its called a joke ! Japanese culture was based on the Samurais making everyone elses life a misery

Napoleon syndrome like that guys who free saint-domingue (haïti) and crown himself emperor of Haïti .

Star Wars

It’s treason then

Lol

RAFHI ARE YOU A BEYBLADE FAN?

Honestly it was more like the biggest cosplay event in the world so yeah.

Lol😂

@@tankman1214 You forgot the Emir and Sultan Title

Lol

@@MeinGoobbyXValorant Or Emhyr

@@tankman1214 Pharaoh - another

Fucking chad

based

And 100 lives.

@@souvikrc4499 whoooo cares about those cookie cutters that died!

redpilled

No most of them are just corrupt money grabbing cunts nothing to do with them sympathising with there colonial past

@@mikewilled8331 No..your thinking of blaiming France or west in general is wrong !! In politicks only one rule remains : nation states do not have friends only interest thus dictators work no for there nation only themselfs and real nations with strategy in mind do operate in best of there nation.

Ian Smith was the only good African leader

Ambrose Adole not just Africans.

N S small world

this guy makes Kpop stans look normal.

😂😂😂

5 million dollars ( in that time!! Maybe 30 by todays money ) cosplay of napoleon.... He is like a 7 star hotel for that standard....

and he did embrace the wrong lessons.... not the REPUBLIC of France.

Megalomaniac and psychopath

he single handedly conquered the gold supply of africa in one day

@Prestige Gameplays i thought he idoled julius caesar.

Became.

Napoleon was a failure. this failed to connect fully with the mind of Bokassa. and it didn't end well for him either.

Hr did what? Lmao

Lol

Just like the French

Not entirely accurate, he has one Vietnamese daughter. He married a Vietnamese woman during the Indochina War when he was a French soldier and had a daughter with her. But he left after the war. When he gained power he sent an envoy to find his daughter Martine. One woman came forward claiming to be the daughter but it was a lie. He later found the real Martine but adopted both girls. He never reunited with the Vietnamese woman he married all those years ago, but he did have up to 17 wives from various parts of the world.

read about that

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It's an African pigeon

It is a pigeon period

@Honeysuckle Blossom lol

I’ll bet it couldn’t lay a golden egg 🤣

Abel Aluma Agebe because many people can only find fault to boost their own low self esteem. Yes, this is an excellent presentation. The content, audio, and visual components are done with a high level of accomplishment. The narrator is easily understood, his pronunciation clean and crisp. Thank you for being a positive voice.

I love the narration.

Cuz we speak better English than both of u and do not find it a huge feat to be able to speak relative English.

I mean he is clear etc, but is this not expected?

@@LisaF777 I guess it is, I suppose I've been watching too many junks on RU-vid. Thank you

U gets more laugh

"come on man"

Nice observation

Have you seen the pictures of his wife being crowned during the ceremony? Even she was bored!

It's the opposite - they financed him to continue the exploitation and cut ties with Gaddhafi. He was form the other side and France needed to pay again for the old deals.

Evil Move!

@Eve Angéliqueit was taxpayers money, African colonies weren't even very profitable for France.

@Eve Angélique It was a bit of both. We shouldn't pretend that colonialism never happened, but we shouldn't pretend that every person in developed nations was a participant in colonialism either.

@@ionescupopa2293 Bokssa briefly converted to Islam to get financial aid from Gaddafi lol

Abdulai Bah sadly, look at naija

Rest of the world same.

Abdulai Bah I swear

If you ever do, we can spare you a few from America and Europe.

Greetings from the eastern Europe, same shit there

Nobody is gonna go full Napoleon any time soon.

@@TheKing-qz9wd Hitler tried but he hacked and the server banned him

@@user-tr1gc6yi2h Amen.

@@user-tr1gc6yi2h Except Hitler was *nothing* like Napoleon, Napoleon preached "liberty, equality, fraternity" whereas the nazis when they invaded France and established Vichy France changed it to "Work, Family, Fatherland" because they weren't fans. Declaring war on half the known world doesn't make you anything like Hitler, if it wasn't for Napoleon the European absolutist monarchies would have continued and serfdom would have continued, which ended during the Napoleonic wars because of the Napoleonic wars.

@@omega1231 thank you for contribing. Anyway yes I knew that, but my comparison was mainly on the territorial extension they conquered, nothing to do with the ideology which is completely different. Good point still

This video really skipped over the nightmare this man really was. Although this was the first time I've heard about his childhood and how he may have become so screwed up in the head. I'm sure most people who make videos on Bokassa don't want to risk sounding sympathetic to a child murdering monster (and probably a cannibal), but I think it's important to understand how people like this become what they are.

@@ressljs His wartime experience probably didn't help things any mentally either.

May he who never beat a child to death and never kept a man's torso in his freezer cast the first stone

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Awesome but not everyone will get it

😂🤣Lol

Nah, he got reincarnated as Bokassa and was so excited about being reborn black and with an n wore pass he went nuts

XD

What you are saying sounds like a joke, but it is brutally true.

Giscard à accepter des diamants de la part des Bokassa durant ses années en tant que ministre, juste avant son mandat

Who? Qin Shi Huang Di?

@@MarcusCato275 winne the pooh lol

Noice hehheeheh !

Innocent XIV tang taizong

@@spongebobsmirk1528 I think you mean 'The Tao of Pooh'

Bokassa: I am about to do what they call a Pro Gamer Move.

Ikk

Kid: mum, can we have french emperor? Mum: we have french emperor at home *French emperor at home:*

or maybe its because they still believe in sorcellery, and are used to beating, burning alive, stoning to death, chopping the flesh of the pretended "sorcerers" by the people who live there... It's not always the fault of the politicians or even dictators. The centrafrican people are still in middle age. The "Tire Torture" is praticed there and this says a lot about them.

Bokassa laughing in grave Lol

He didn't say it he declared it

The least he could do is conquer a neighboring country that has access to the sea. But no coronation go bruh.

I mean he was officially an emperor but it doesn't mean shit if you can't defend your title.

“A man who must declare himself the king, Is no king at all”

Compare Mr. "Bokassa I" to Haile Salassie, a man who built his country into a force so powerful that Europeans and even the United States were receiving him for state visits...in the 1950s and 60s. The difference between a real emperor and a guy trying to play one.

he was playing concubine

She must have been thrilled to hear that lol.

Basically the one who gave the most insane head

Problem are the 9 mothers in law

Lucky bastard

On the field, sure. But Napoleon's coronation getup was just as gaudy.

​@@howlingdin9332Napoleon deserved it though. Unlike this guy.

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3a3a3a in all honesty most these countries are probably Wakanda if they’re not exploited

Agus Harmawan hahahahahah no

@@agusharmawan1354 nah, developed and thriving countries? Yes, Wakanda level prosperity? No

Thanks for watching 👍🏿

Do we ? I mean, do we more than everybody else ?

@@alioshax7797 yes absolutely without question

@@1313tennisman Sounds like a good old stereotype to me, to be fair. Like, you know, Italians are lazy, Germans can't laugh, English are boring and stuff. But I'm French, so I guess I can't judge. I assume you guys have some examples to give ?

..................................................its that true? did this happen because he could not beat France sherlock? ...France had been pushed out as a colonial power by then, do u not know that. they literally did beat France, as anyone could. stop playing on the web now.

This was never about French power over the region so much as its continued influence to the detriment of its peoples. the wanting to be like cold greedy thieves from Europe is what is sad.

@@skyjuiceification this comment is more about the French influence on Bokassa's personal life, not the entire region, from where the French had already retreated

He was crazy.

But it seems to becoming a pretty fruitful mentality in most of Europe now if you truly open your eyes. That's why America wasn't with that global "acceptance" agreement.

I am an immense francophile like this guy, I want everything to be french.

@@AveTrainOnDaTrack , keep your french things in france, france NEVER did anything good for Africa.

@@makeitreal4848 the impact of french rule over africa is really complicate to judge, mostly bad yeah... But at the same time they made huge investment in our territory, and vaccinated our population against desease... Once again i'm not for colonisation, but saying that nothing was good is an error, most of us didn't knew how it was like, and a lot of elder have different version about all of that

Jesus unholy Christ that is messed up

I think from his wife actually, not his company.....🙂

@@ayoomotola9319 ah you're right.

@@xp_studios7804 ❤

Hope they did the same to him and didn't get to retire in France.

You get it. Everyone would want zo be emperor, that guy just went through with it at all costs.

@Chimino Pulverman kek

Those "dreams and goals" of his were only created through the figurative and somewhat quite literal destruction of his young life. They were created through the absolute destruction of his spirit. That's what colonialism did to him. He internalized the power and dominance of the french into his psyche just to keep his soul alive.

By torturing his fellow men and licking the french 🥖

:(

Star wars

Noice

Check your info... Bokassa actually brought his country to an all time High. Who cares if he declared himself Emperor if People were safe and wealthy. While now they might be "free" but are starving and under constant attack from Boko-haram and other islamiste group

Pre-Colonial Africa had Empires and Emperors, checkmate

Very much like Trump in the US.

Trump is stopping the child sex slavery coming over the border, so naturally he is hated by those who own slaves and rape children

@@customsongmaker umm, disappear

customsongmaker That’s your explanation? Pathetic.

@@customsongmaker Wharton School of Business professor William T. Kelley - “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

W H A T

What does this even mean?? 😭😭😭✋✋

What a stupid saying !

What would that mean?

@@junichiroyamashita SInce a lot of you are asking for the meaning, here is my interpretation : First the context, it's an old Swahili saying. It means that when people who aren't used to having wealth get it, they become greedy. The poor person will overindulge in food, they get fat to the point that their butts make a sound while they walk (the humor of the butt clap sound is lost in the translation). Back then fat people were not common and they were stereotyped as greedy with no control of how much food they eat. This is just my interpretation. Like most sayings, there could be many other interpretations.

I am not suprised by such ignorance coming from a South african.

O-KAY, I don’t think I’ve ever been called an “ignorant peasant” before. Such colourful use of words…an uneducated jack**s as well. Guess my architecture degree is a meaningless piece of paper and being South African inherently equates to being ignorant. You do realize though that the video is captioned “The craziest African Dictator YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF”. But what do I know, I’m a simple uneducated, ignorant jack**s South African peasant.

Never Forget it was France who created and destroyed Boukassa.

Can we say queen Victoria is a dictator as she cling to power forever

@@njabulombuyazi5132 now because you're coming from South Africa, you're insulted....I am sorry my brother for the absurdity of these imbeciles ,now they are the ones who have the mentality that video is in discourse in

Say what you will, waste of money? Poor choices? Sick design tho!

Sounds like a trait shared by all africans and basketball Americans

Str8 garbage comment😆😆😆

CoolMan Caravan get out and see the world buddy there are successful black entrepreneurs, doctors, engineers, professor, lawyer, and etc. travel and see it open your mind.

Lol "ballers" who'd get rims and grills but don't support their children 😎😂

Also sounds like Mike Tyson at his prime... 😂 😂 😂

99% of people's Intel about so-called Black people come from t.v media and entertainment. Never from personal experience or friendships.

well here in the states we have that same dilemma ...........theyre called rappers.

@@ghostfrequency6920 and athletes

i forgot to include thank you for the correction sir.

Mostly so called African American

Trump calling

Валентин Valentin If they are lucky they get $20

Actually they earn far less to near 3 and half bucks

Become emperor

Naw. I remember one African country very poor....had a space program...I kid you not was like a metal trashcan w dynamite under it and bike helmets for the astronauts

@@necessaryevile i think i know that. The male astronauts also impregnated the women during training

It wasn’t his coronation, it was the 2,500 anniversary of the foundation of the Persian Empire.

Self hate is living in a 2 story building which blacks didn't have before colonization

@@FC-88 I don't understand why people keep saying this as if Europeans did Africa some big favour. Africans have always been living in simple dwellings and in the event that Europeans didn't bring two-storey houses, they would still be living happily in them. People don't need luxuries to be happy, especially when such luxuries were unknown to a group of people.

@@tajaun3467 True. Now days the best way for former colonies to not fall victim to sissy hypno western influence is to have dictators

Angola has the biggest self hatred displayed no loyalty

Self hate because how do you expect a child to handle that experience? They can’t process shit you can as an adult

Emperor, not monarch

Emperor. We love our emperors here in France. Napoleon was our true leader.

@@sharefactor an emperor is a monarch

@@Ch-ew9tm Yes but it does not have the same meaning in France. Also the idea that the revolution ended the monarchy is false. We had two emperors and three kings after the Revolution.

from what I know is that France just really hates the bourbon monachry and likes napoleon and his son? Not sure but the napoleon who lost to Germany

Me Too

Wow 👏

Meaning what I am a Nigerian

be careful, these videos are lying. just a heads up.

oceej0 correct. When I say Afrikans I mean black people. I have edited my comment. I understand how it could have been taken the wrong way

oceej0 no problem. The comment definitely needed to be clarified ✌🏿&❤️🖤💚

Sa Ra they’re still suffering all black people need to unite and resist any involvement of west in their lands

@Gods Klanof I think your very You Tube name says it all and reinforces the original comment.

You spot on

That is sad on ur schools.

Nobody can be like napoleon, ceasar, salad-al-dhin, alexander, etc.

@@maximeperez-raymond3346 Please, take stingy fingers off of Alexander the Great. He's too big for such lists. The greatest of the Greeks deserve better. Also, he kept wearing a single purple cloak. Not carnival.

@@nikolaosmark5812 Alexander the great won 22 battles Napoléon won 56 battles.

Ace Ventura But you are not him, you are not like him. Like all Russians are not Stalin, Germans are not Hitler. This things have nothing to do with Color of skin.

Its disgusting how alot of our people view themselves

@@dannycv82 well said sir 👍

Im an extremely proud AFRICAN who loves all things that resemble Africa

@@dannycv82 Very well said!

It depends you need to look at each African country individually to make a better assessment.

Africa is where it is because of its culture.

@@miketheman4341 Racist detected. I guess you could say the same thing about Bosnia in the 90's, if you want to go there...

ColerainSwaggify Bosnia is a tiny country with a conflict that lasted several years! Africa is a continent where backward existence is the norm. Superstition dominates over logic and reason. Bronze Age economic and cultural paradigms govern rather than democracy and merit. The conflict in the former Yugoslavia cost 250000 lives and this was the only conflict in Europe in the last 75 years. On the other hand the conflict in the Congo alone has cost over 5 million lives in a 10 year period. This is like comparing speeding with murder! Remember this lesson!

Taharqa Mansa Don’t blame the messenger! Remember this lesson.

Thats the only thing I was sad about..the rest..well no

Like Hirohito would ever step foot on that country

"They were jealous of him. He had an empire and they didn't"

yeah and the he considered himself above all a friend of France and then France backstabbed him. Hurts me to

>implying actual monarchs like Hirohito and Pahlavi would actually take him seriously instead dismissing him as some Nutjob African dude with a extreme case of NPD lmao.

in Crusader Kings 2; Normandy is a duchy-tier title + county too, I believe, as well.

To be fair, Kings are usually the biggest clowns in history. Looking at you Henry The VIII.

@@stefan6347 Henry the VIII was at least creative.He gave the Vatican the finger and formed his own church.

😂

I feel like some racist should make a Obama reference to that. I mean Obama was American born and not a stupid clown. But a decent president but someone has to point it out

Bro I don't have a drop of African blood in my veins and this is hard to watch. It's like an 8 year old playing dress-up with his mom's credit card, except it's a grown man obsessed with gaudy Pre Victorian age royalty and the credit card is the national budget of his nation. I can't believe he didn't get laughed out of his coronation for how ridiculous he looks

Me Too. DAMN that's SAD!!! So people Are Screwed MENTALLY!!!!!!

Why, you have nothing to do with him

Because the Europeans instill that in the countries they colonised.

To fair If your gonna pick a person too admire why not the greatest Warrior emperor to ever live in the history of the world Obviously he went too far But Just because you admire another culture and you take and learn from it to add to your own only makes you stronger For example jazz music witch comes from black culture in the United States takes influence from French Spanish and British folk music European cultures they ended up making something new that’s part of there own culture

legkip legkip no offense, but that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

legkip legkip Yeah, sure, let's take out any incentive and regulation and go back to the tribal age, then be slaughtered by our neighbors at night, with some being sold as slaves, sounds great...

...no hope...

legkip legkip Humans naturally form their own hierarchies and social structures, that is why they sprung up in the first place. Destroying the ones in place would only result in temporary confusion and, well, anarchy, until another authority comes and takes it’s place. It is the natural way of things. People of naive and unintelligent thinking like you would be the ones who would need an authority to hold their hand the most.

@@gamerito100 I don't think that's what happened in that age. But not having governments doesn't sound like the right move to make.