But for His Majesty Haile Selassie the year 1935 would have been a distinctly different year. If by some unhappy chance the Italo-Ethiopian war should now spread into a world conflagration. Power ...

An iconic figure in African history, Haile Selassie is remembered as a powerful and progressive politician who modernized ...

Haile Selassie was more than 30 years into his reign when he helped ... In East Africa, Ras Tafari ("chief" Tafari) became Haile Selassie ("power of the trinity"). Almost 8,000 miles away in ...

Two years later, when Italy invaded Ethiopia and Haile Selassie and his family fled to Britain, it was Ras Desta who led the resistance along the country’s southern border — that is ...

Emperor Haile Selassie pictured with the Mayor of Bath William Gallop in 1954 Objects belonging to the former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who lived for some years in Bath, are set to go on ...

He was so broke he toyed with the idea of being a musician, writes Murray-Brown Haile Selassie means ‘power of the trinity ... with His Imperial Majesty 33 years after his stay at 75 Castle ...

Kenya's first president, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, was known for his no-nonsense attitude and it showed on several occasions. At one time during the 1964 Jamhuri Day celebrations, Mzee Kenyatta ...