LIKE all Ethiopian royalty, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie traces his ancestry back to the match between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. His Semite-Hamite blood lines show in his stern jaw ...
Today (April 21) marks the 60th anniversary of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I’s state visit to Jamaica. The diminutive ...
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining figure ...
Feb. 10—It is much more than a legend in Ethiopia. It's accepted as a historical fact that when the Queen of Sheba traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon and give him gifts, she became pregnant ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — July 23 marks the 131st anniversary of the birth of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the Rasta faith considers the incarnation of God. NEW YORK (RNS) — After the sun set over ...
The image of Ethiopia is the face of famine. Hollow cheeks and desolate eyes are symbols of the country’s present catastrophe. But they say nothing about its astonishing past. Today it is hard to ...