Sonny M'Pokomandji (born 29 February 1948), nicknamed M'Pokson,[1] is a retired Central African basketball player, air transport expert, and politician.

He moved to Sarh in an unknown year since his parents, who worked as a civil servant, were posted there and enrolled in Saint-François Xavier Catholic School.

[1][2] M'Pokomandji joined the national team and played the first game for the Central African Republic in 1966 against Zaire in Kinshasa.

While playing for Montpellier University Club, he was called to the Central African basketball squad for the FIBA Africa Championship 1972, and the team finished in fourth place.

Although the players received the prize from Bokassa, Renault 4 was not delivered to them since the Cameroonian Port Authority sold the cars in the auction due to the inability to pay storage and custody fees.

[4] After finishing his higher education with a civil aviation engineering degree, he returned to CAR and worked at ACESNA.

On 16 February 1976, while M'Pokomandji and ICAO officials inspected the Bangui M'Poko International Airport runway, a grenade was thrown at Bokassa when he was to board a flight to N'Délé.

The country's censorship service prevented the letter from reaching Ndoro since it was considered "an act of subversion against Bokassa," causing M'Pokomandji to be arrested.

Subsequently, he resigned and got a new job as an Air Transport Expert at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa.

[1] M'Pokomandji left ASECNA in 2000 and returned to Bangui, where he and his younger brothers established a freight forwarding company called Mondial Air Fret (MAF).

[8] M'Pokomandji ran for the MP candidate in the 2005 Central African general election representing Nola and won a seat at the National Assembly.

[9][10] In the 2011 election, he was reelected as an MP representing Nola 1 District after the constitutional court declared him the winner by invalidating Aliou Bapetel's victory.

[11] Previously, his supporters staged a demonstration in Bangui Street on 8 April to protest the vote theft of M'Pokomandji's rival.

However, his appointment as an NTC member sparked protests from Sangha-Mbaéré residents who claimed that he was not an appropriate person to represent the prefecture and asked the government to endorse Paulin Pomodimo instead.

[1] M'Pokomandji belongs to Banda and married Rose Francine, a daughter of police commissioner Gaston Ouakara-Sow.