Somalia & Ethiopia

Horn of Africa

Pirate Website

Al Shabab, Somali Jihadis

Somalia in 8 minutes

Somalia Vacation

Mursi woman, Omo Valley, Ethiopia

Tribus de l’Omo

(Fantastic French Omo People art)

Labelila, Ethiopian Coptic Christian Churches in volcanic landscape

Labelila, Ethiopian Coptic Christianity

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Zion

Haile Selassie I (1892 –1975), a prominent figure in Ethiopian and African history, born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to the 13th century, and from there by tradition back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Haile Selassie means “Power of the Holy Trinity.”To the Rastafari movement, which has a million

adherents worldwide, he is considered to be the religious symbol of God incarnate.

At the League of Nations in 1936, the Emperor's protest of the use of chemical weapons against his people foreshadowed not only the worldwide conflict that was to come, but also the advent of the technological "refinement of barbarism“ that would come to mark modern warfare. Selassie was a gifted speaker, and some of his speeches have been counted among the most memorable of the twentieth century.

His internationalist views led to Ethiopia's becoming a charter member of the United Nations, and his political thought and experience in promoting multilateralism and collective security have proved seminal and enduring.

Haile Selassie on YouTubeThe Incarnation of the History of Our Time?