Yahya Jammeh and the Bokassa Parallel
[The Standard - The Gambia] - 29/10/2025
By Rtd Lt Colonel Samsudeen Sarr, When Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the self-crowned Emperor of the Central African Empire, landed in Bangui in 1986 after nearly a decade in gilded exile, he returned not to the throne he once adorned with diamond-studded arrogance, but to a courtroom. His empire had (…)
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