Talk:Jean-Bédel Bokassa
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194.117.133.118,
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- Please see your talk page. 194.117.133.118 11:05 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
I somehow suspect that the bit about Giscard is a bit biased. David.Monniaux 21:07, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Humor?
I know humor is usually not the intended effect in the Wikipedia. I hope the humor inherent in the following juxtapostion is unintended:
- With the return of democracy in 1993, Kolingba declared a general amnesty for all prisoners as one of his final acts as president. Bokassa was released on August 1. He had seventeen wives and a reported fifty children. He died of a heart attack.
--iFaqeer 18:11, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
You may wish to edit this entry in List of Dictators. Wizzy…☎ 21:45, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming to Jean-Bedel Bokassa
Shouldn't this article be renamed to Jean-Bédel Bokassa. I mean, he wasnt really an emperor after all, and a google search for "Bokassa I of Central Africa" (omitting Wikipedia) returns 3 links. Well, I'll go ahead and rename it. --Ezeu 03:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, it doesn't really matter what google turns up. He was officially an Emperor, that was his official title. Past monarchs have not even ruled or reigned, yet they have thier regnal names and such for their article names. Surely Bokassa exerted more political power than, say, Napoleon II of France? I see no logical reason as to why this should not be called "Bokassa I of Central Africa". That was his name. --The Gonz 15:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I have to agree, he was recognised by France Switzerland and the U.S. and ruled for three years. No question he was also a tyrant, murderer and all around dick, but that has little to do with the fact of his name and position. And who says he wasn't really an emperor anyway?, you could say as easily and with as much validity that the Current head of State of any country in the world isn't really the Head of state because you don't like him. The question is whether the person actually was head of state or not, in this case its clear Bokassa was. As I said, he was recognised by democratic Governments and even if he wasn't it wouldn't matter. The Official name of the country changed to the Central African Empire for nearlt three years, Bokassa ruled as an emperor in the traditional sense and there was a massive coronation for him. The fact that he was an evil emeror and a tyrant and ruled for a relatively short period of time changes nothing about the fact he was emperor and the Central African Republic Was an Empire. A good example would be James II of England, his reign was just as short as Bokassa's and he was banished just as effectively, but nobody says he wasn't really King of England during those three years. Just because the Emperor Bokassa was unlikable and a horrible despot changes nothing about whether he was really emperor, you can't rule autocratically for almost three years, be recognised by foreign governments and be crowned Emperor in a lavish coronation ceremony and not really be Emeror because you were a bad person. Its about what was, rather than how things ought to have been. Colin 8 21:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
- The Almanach de Bruxelles (a geneology of non eurpoean royal and imperial houses) refers to Jean-Bedel Bokassa as His Imperial Majesty, Bokassa I, Emperor of Central Africa, his male descendents are princes and are styled as such. If Napoleon Bonaparte is listed as Napoleon I of France then to be accurate and unbiased, Jean-Bedel Bokassa should be Bokassa I of Central Africa, theres enough historical revisionism going around in the world without Wikipedia joining in.
[edit] Links
You should closely examine the links in this here article. The first linked Website is dedicated to a statesman who served his country with selfless devotion for his service to a nation that desperately needed a firm leadership in an era of widespread governmental corruption who alas was rejected by the people he so loved. I have a feeling that this is NOT was was meant by NPOV. --Janneman 01:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Links, as they are external, do not need to fulfill NPoV. Hence links from a politician's article can go to there own website.--Couter-revolutionary 18:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cannibalism
Is there any information about why such rumors were around about him and why a was he cleared of such charges? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.40.10.181 (talk • contribs) , at 23:55, 22 April 2007
[edit] Bobangi, Moyen-Congo
Bokassa was born in Bobangi, a village in Moyen-Congo, in the present Central African Republic (then a French colony called French Equatorial Africa).
Where is this exactly? The only Bobangi Wikipedia knows is in the present DRC (0° 6.67’ S latitude, 17° 43.26 E longitude, along the banks of the Ubangi River), not in the CAR, and surely Moyen-Congo was in the present ROC (former French Congo). Flapdragon 19:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Imperial stamp.jpg
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Jean Bédel Bokassa.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Dates
The "Foreign Support" section's dates are screwed up. It says that "In early December 1979, the French council officially stopped all support to Bokassa", when he was overthrown in September 1979; and that French support peaked at the time of his coronation, then declined over contacts with Qadhafi, which Bokassa broke off because being a Muslim contradicted his coronation plans. What's the story here? KarlM (talk) 20:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Place of Birth
According to the french wikipedia Bokassa was born in a province named Lobaye. Shouldn't that information be added to the current text? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.138.78.32 (talk) 20:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
- He was born in Bobangui, which is a village in the Lobaye prefecture. The article now states this. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not love) 21:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
