...Julia Kim Werts The many names and titles of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor, proclaim the grandeur and majesty of his role in the country’s recent history. As elaborate and expressive as the words used to describe him, the role of his physical body as a public embodiment of modernity...

... center is explored in this article through the lens of portraiture and fashion. Examining the unique social presence of the Ethiopian royal family in the media, both at home and abroad, this article presents an analysis of the fashionably dressed bodies of Emperor Haile Selassie and his children within...

... of the European Scramble for Africa.1 Born in 1861, Prince Alemayehu was the son of the mid-nineteenth-century emperor Tewodros II...

... in Europe and years until 1969. However, it would be with a dense urban space of closely then returned to Ethiopia. Emperor unheard-of to exclude Skunder because...

.... Quote from Gerard Prunier's The Rwanda Ethiopia was a monarchy then led by the Crisis, History of a Genocide which says that infamous Emperor himself, Haile Selassie I...

.... The change grew from the state and the nobility asserting itself and becoming more involved, expanding the patronage beyond the almost exclu• sive church clientele. The Emperor was the main benefactor of the church. He saw to it that it was supported by public funds; its property and income...

... of the Central African Republic, before humor. If th ere is a gloss of megalomani c self-infatuation in even its official independence from France in 1960, and Fosse's wor k, it only serves to rend er more acutely what is Bokassa was the infamous emperor in power at the time being offered to view, for his...

... European cities. In Europe, he was ironically interned by the Nazis, and then barred from returning home by the end of WWII. Skunder, on the other hand, lived a life of self-imposed exile from a homeland that was first ravaged by decades of the feudal reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, and later...

... dining chamber fit for a video-loving emperor, and Liew Kung Yu's Temple of Eastern Paradise. And Latin American...

... at unearthed from their embedding in popular cul• the opening of this essay: "the sense that we are ture. The Emperor's new clothes are revealed for always being evaluated"7 as African Americans, a what they really are! prevailing and lingering DuBoisian double con...

... See for example the excavated army of the First Emperor of cies. Bell's figure, with a human head, torso and 3 29 China (Fong, Wen, The Great Bronze Age of China, New York: arms fixed to a possibly feline body, uses...

..., cited in South May 21, 2012, accessed December 7, 2014, httpwww.iol.co.za/ African History Online, “Winnie Madikizela-Mandela,” accessed capetimes/mike-van-graan-on-the-spear-1.1301114; April 28, 2014, httpwww.sahistory.org.za/people/winnie- and Njabulo S. Ndebele, “The Emperor is Naked...

... numerous books based on the lives of ing the film about him. I reconnected with him after many emperors, earning him the title of Ethiopia’s leading histo- years and reconnected with my Ethiopian self. It was a re- rian. During the film we visit his birthplace in Ankober, see markable experience...

... citizens political alliances, allegiances, and loyalties, or lack thereof. It was during the mass uprising, otherwise known as the 1974 Revolution, when the imperial state of Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown. The 1973 famine that killed over three hundred thousand peas­ ants in Wollo and Tigray...

... that houses the figure is painted in the colors of the Ethiopian flag (green-yellow-red), but the colors are shown in reverse. At the bottom right, a circle logo combines the sign of the emperor with that of the French company who built the train lines, now the Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Éthiopien. Modernization...

... of the militias, "They were very courageous when they were killing Manet's In |aar's Rwanda works, we see the artist's The Execution of the Emperor people who could not defend themselves...

... books of Christians by the Roman emperor Diocletian. Sebastian's martyr• Sudanese folktales for both children and adults. In recent years, dom was a favorite subject of Renaissance artists...

... body that of the artist himself. The performance gives the sensation of an impact caused by a shot that provokes the beginning of the fall, recalling Édouard Manet s The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1868) by the existence of a wall in the background, the position the wall occupies in the visual...

..., century discovery of exuberant wall decorations in South Africa. Photo: Ian Carbutt the underground vaults of Emperor Nero’s pleasure Mercer Nka • 83 house (the Domus Aurea, near the Colosseum in of her graduate...

... around the peoples of Gog and those linked to the Le Zionist party of Mapam Magog, or even to the famous Chinese wall built (the Socialists) in Israel, a section of the party that between 220 and 206 BC by the rst emperor of sought Israeli- Arab rapprochement, as well as Euro- China, Qin Shi...