Actually, his full name is ‘His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia, Elect of God,’ a title so often used by Rastafarians – a ...

By the end of the 1970s, Haile Selassie’s policies had left Ethiopia with an extremely underdeveloped economy. It had the ...

Ethiopia's athletics maestro, Haile Gebreselassie, can be compared to the late John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America. He's innovative, astute and blessed with a ...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage. This Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism ...

Resistance hero Ras Desta Damtew was executed by Italian fascists in 1937, after which some of his belongings are believed to ...

The solid gold medal is referred to as the “Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia” and is touted for having once belonged to Emperor Haile Selassie’s fabled son-in-law, a noble executed by ...

Only 26 African countries had achieved independence when, in February 1961, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ascended a ...