Tag: New Year lesson recount
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Emperor Haile Selassie I at Ethiopian New Year
Ethiopia’s last emperor was Emperor Haile Selassie I (Atse Haile Selassie): negus (king) and Lion of Judah. No kitten on the world stage, he had helped set up the League of Nations. In 1968 when I was 14, he visited my remote city: Perth, Western Australia. Our geography teacher did not show a map of…