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Real Dictators
Marie-France Bocassa, one of Bokassa's recognized children, wrote this memoir which painted a portrait of her father as a strict disciplinarian with high standards for his children. She wrote about the challenges the children faced due to their father having multiple wives, which led to difficult relationships with some stepmothers.
One of the things that Marie-France Bocassa writes about in her memoir is that one of the challenges that those kids faced was that their father had multiple wives and that the relationships among the...
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Marie-France Bocassa, one of Bokassa's recognized children, wrote this memoir which painted a portrait of her father as a strict disciplinarian with high standards for his children. She wrote about the challenges the children faced due to their father having multiple wives, which led to difficult relationships with some stepmothers.
One of the things that Marie-France Bocassa writes about in her memoir is that one of the challenges that those kids faced was that their father had multiple wives and that the relationships among the children and some of these wives were not always easy and that some of those stepmothers could be, in some cases, much more brutal than the father.
She paints an interesting portrait of her father as someone who was a strict disciplinarian, had very high standards for his children and could be quite dictatorial also in his home life, but also someone who was very, very important to her as she was growing up.