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...His government now envisages selling a 45 per cent stake in Ethio Telecom, parts of Ethiopian Shipping Lines and a state-owned but Hilton-managed hotel opened by emperor Haile Selassie in 1969....
...Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Halfway through watching Grandpa Was An Emperor, a fascinating recent documentary about Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, I was thrown by a minor, but completely unexpected, plot twist....
...In the early 1930s, Guèbrou returned to Addis Ababa, where she began to give recitals and once performed for the emperor, Haile Selassie, at his palace....
...Lyons is competing for the role against fellow alderman Tim Hailes, who would become the first openly gay lord mayor in the history of the City if chosen....
...In Ethiopia, where all transitions of power since the fall of emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 have been violent, his words still resonate: “Peace is a day-to-day problem.”...
...Other nascent legends, including Med Hondo, Haile Gerima and Lionel Ngakane, “came with agendas they were determining themselves....
...Her early forays into photography were first encouraged by her grandfather, who was in Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie’s air force, as well as being a painter and poet....
...Plus its marathon-like stamina rivals Haile Gebrselassie (and dwarfs its competitors), with up to 27 hours of playing time. Hang it from your tote. Blast Kygo’s latest summer hit....
...Lion of Judah, War in Ethiopia, Lutz Becker’s 1975 documentary, contains rare footage of Fascist Italy’s plundering of Haile Selassie’s kingdom....
...By the following year, Ellington had died of lung cancer and Haile Selassie had been deposed by a Soviet-backed Marxist regime in a coup whose ripples are still being felt today....
...These range from Castro in Cuba to the Kims in North Korea and many giants of Africa, including Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Haile Selassie in Ethiopia and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda....
...Hailes said in a statement that he remained “wholly committed to the civic city as alderman for the ward of Bassishaw”....
...She tells how the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was identified as a god by multiple Jamaican preachers independently....
...Any interim government would have, as a matter of urgency, to try to settle the issue that has eaten away at Ethiopia at least since the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974....
...Haile Selassie, who oversaw a feudal system, was deposed and later executed after a student-inspired, Marxist-led uprising in 1974....
...The book is an account of the fall of Haile Selassie, told through the eyes of anonymous members of the Ethiopian ruler’s court....
...They did so in the 1940s against Emperor Haile Selassie in the so-called Woyane rebellion....
...There were no crowds, as there had been for the visit of Ethiopian dictator Haile Selassie, months earlier. And, beneath the cheery demeanour, Nixon was nervous, unsure....
...But what I watched was Sankofa, a 1993 film by the Washington-based Ethiopian film-maker Haile Gerima, who happens to believe that movies should “haunt the audience all the way to their bedrooms”....
...Founded in 1945 by Emperor Haile Selassie I — its headquarters building is H-shaped in his honour — the state-owned company’s hub in Addis Ababa is one of the largest and most modern African cargo terminals...
...“Many Oromo feel he has a nostalgia for the imperial days,” said Merera Gudina, chairman of an Oromo opposition party, citing Abiy’s praise of Menelik II and Emperor Haile Selassie....
...Tigrayans have a long history of fighting: first in a 1940s rebellion against Emperor Haile Selassie, then in a guerrilla war against the Derg regime that led to the Tigrayans ruling Ethiopia from 1991 after...
...As we drive into downtown LA, heading for a Brazilian place called Woodspoon, I mention one of her recent projects — the re-release on Netflix of Sankofa, a 1993 film by the Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima...
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