Jean-Bédel Bokassa the Younger

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Jean-Bédel Georges Bokassa (the Younger) (born November 2, 1973 ) is the son of the dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa , who was President of the Central African Empire from 1966 to 1976 and the self-proclaimed Emperor of the Central African Empire from 1976 to 1979 . He was named Crown Prince ( French prince héritier de Centrafrique ) by his father at the age of four . From then on he was also known as Prince Jean-Bédel Bokassa II .

Bokassa Junior is the son of Empress Catherine, his father's sixth wife. He played an important role in his father's coronation on December 4, 1976.

Bokassa's older brother Jean-Serge Bokassa (* 1971) applied for the office of President of the Central African Republic in 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Bokassa imperial line. MSN News. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  2. ^ Brian Titley: Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa , McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7735-1602-6 , pp. 86-87.
  3. ↑ Titley, pp. 92-97.
personal data
SURNAME Bokassa, Jean-Bédel the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bokassa, Jean-Bédel Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Central African heir to the throne
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Central African Republic