Michael Jackson in Côte d'Ivoire in February 1992

In 1992, during a trip to the Ivory Coast (the government discourages the use of the name Ivory Coast in English, preferring the French version, Côte d'Ivoire), Michael Jackson was crowned as a King.

Jackson visited the gold-mining village of Krindjabo, home to the Agni tribe and located near the capital of Abidjan (the commercial and banking center of Côte d'Ivoire), where he was crowned "King Sani" by a tribal chief and had received the West African nation's "Medal of honor" presented by President Omar Bongo - the first entertainer to have received the medal.

From his sunset arrival in Gabon, where more than 100,000 people greeted him with spiritual bedlam, to his stop in Cairo, Egypt, to which he had paid homage on his newest album, Dangerous, with the best-selling single and music video Remember The Time, Michael was caught up in a hurricane of happy happenings.