An iconic figure in African history, Haile Selassie is remembered as a powerful and progressive politician who modernized Ethiopia. His policies earned him much reverence and the attention of Black ...

Rastafarians are not Christians. Since the 1930s they have believed that the then emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, is God himself. His name was Ras Tafari before 1930, when he was called "King ...

Ras Tafari, who took the name Haile Selassie at his coronation, was seen as the "promised Messiah from the House of Judah" (Jamaicans Of Ethiopian Origin And The Rastafarian Faith). As Barrett ...

Two blue plaques have been unveiled in Somerset to honour Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's life in Bath and visits to Weston-super-Mare. The emperor lived in Fairfield House in Bath from 1936 to ...

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 ...

A religious sect that took root in Jamaica in the 1930s, the Rastafari movement was founded on the belief that Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, was God incarnate on Earth. Although it was ...