Conscripted To Be Private Bandleader For Central Africa's Notorious Dictator-Emperor
Back in the late 1960s, Charlie Perrière was a struggling young musician in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, and about to leave for Congo when he was personally summoned by President Jean-Bédel Bokassa " the one who later crowned himself Emperor (just like his hero, Napoleon) and fed prisoners to crocodiles and lions. […]