Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. Lij is translated as 'child' and serves to indicate that a youth ...

Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's former emperor, was dethroned 50 years ago. The king, who befriended leaders in the US, Europe and ...

Ethiopia. The likeness of Haile Selassie is being given pride of place outside the $200m (£154m) building in recognition for his role in establishing its predecessor, the Organization of African ...

who was the youngest child of Emperor Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 when he was overthrown. The ...

A STOLEN ancient Ethiopian shield has finally retuned back its homeland after more than 150 years. His Imperial Highness ...

The death of deposed Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie on August 27 ... Addis Ababa palace after his entire entourage was arrested, Ethiopia's last emperor died at the age of 83 of "circulatory ...

A decade later, when 38-year-old Ras Tafari (or Chief Tafari) was crowned Ethiopia's Haile Selassie I, many in Jamaica saw this as the prophecy coming true, and the Rastafari movement was born.

In the mid-1920s, the powerful warlords of Ethiopia were coming to the realisation that a young man of the nobility named Haile Selassie, also known as Ras Tafari, was outcompeting them all and ...

At Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway ...

The show features the cloak of Haile Selassie I, who is presented as something of a transitional figure. What does he represent for the history of Ethiopia? What does he represent in your show?

In 1935, fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia, one of the only countries in Africa never to be colonized. Ethiopia’s leader, ...