The romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… over Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, died in 1975, but he lives on through the … (also known as the Glory of Kings) is the ancient text from which Selassie’s mythology stems. It narrates the … Haile Selassie, a distant relation, claimed descent from the Solomonic dynasty. Inspired by this ideology, …