The egg on the face of government in Nairobi is, however, incomparable to what happened to one of Africa's worst dictator, Jean Bedel Bokassa after he was given a 17-year-old Vietnamese street ...

Jean-Bedel Bokassa, self-proclaimed ‘Emperor of Africa’, was perhaps the maddest of the lot. Fond of wearing his Field Marshal’s uniform with medals from neck to knee, he was crowned emperor ...

Its first President David Dacko was overthrown in 1966 by Jean-Bedel Bokassa, who crowned himself emperor in an extravagant coronation in 1977 that saw marching bands, a gold carriage and Mr ...