Africa
A head of nation with the rank of colonel
Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi,
The famous former leader of Libya who was killed by NTC militants after his government was overthrown.
His rank was only Colonel, not General, since his idol, Nasser, the second president of Egypt from 1954, only had the rank of Colonel.
[Nasser : ? ? ?]
A nation with a copied constitution
Liberia, a nation began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which believed black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States.
Even the name of the nation comes from "liberty".
It made its constitution identical to the ones of the US.
Yet becomes one of the worst countries in the world
[ Haiti: OMG, the same thing happened to me! ]
The straight borders of Africa
The Berlin Conference (1884–1885), also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference.
Of the fourteen countries being represented, six of them – Austria-Hungary, Russia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden–Norway, and the United States – came home without any formal possessions in Africa.
Ignoring Africa's natural and cultural boundaries, such as its topography, landforms,religions, languages, traditional habits and ethnic conflicts, the imperialists rudely dismembered Africa on the map with a red pencil, which made the straight borders and left a lot of trouble till today.
A joke that could not be withdrawn
1976, Jean-Bédel Bokassa instituted a new constitution that transformed the Central African Republic into an Empire (CAE).
The coronation was estimated to cost $US20 million – one third of the CAE's annual budget and all of France's aid money for that year. 2,500 invitations were sent to foreigners, but most politicians around the world did not show up.
A French law student, Didier I, made a joke and wrote to Bokassa, claiming that he was the king of Basoche (a club whose chief officer has the title of "king" ) and asked to be invited to the coronation.
Bokassa obliged, providing plane tickets for Didier and his girlfriend (the “queen”).
Didier realized that he might have caused a diplomatic accident and tried to explain. Maybe because there weren’t many leaders attending, diplomats of the Central Africa Empire insisted that Didier was a king.
Didier could not withdraw his joke, so he brought his girlfriend to the coronation, and they were treated as other heads of state.
The president:
a Human Flesh Eater
Idi Amin, the former president of Uganda, one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
In the book A State Of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin, Henry Kayenba wrote that Idi Amin killed his foes and performed severe cruelty with their dead bodies. The liver, kidneys, lips, genitals, and several body parts were missing.
It is also mentioned in the book that Amin had bragged frequent times that he eats human flesh.
In one incident, he even mentioned that the meat of humans is saltier than leopard meat.
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