Haile Selassie

Biography

Ras Tafari, claimed Solomonic descent from Menelik I. Italian invasion 1935, Geneva speech, the collective security failure, exile until 1941. Modernization, the 1955 revised constitution, OAU founding father, Africa Addis as capital. The 1973 famine, the hidden film, the Derg deposed him 1974, murdered in the palace 1975, buried under a latrine, reburied 2000. Rastafari worship him as Jah, the second coming, Bob Marley spread the word.