...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...

... involvement with the overthrow of Hallie Selassie's Ethiopia in the late 1960s and 1970s falls into any of a number of documentary traps...

... built houses below it. Artist Zerihun Haile Selassie's move to modernize of his quintessential role both at the Yetmgeta's striking Yesterday and Ethiopia included sending...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... their social prestige, and the artist depended on Haile Sellassie 1st University, presently Addis Ababa them for material existence. This was most clearly evident University. His spare time was spent reading all he could find during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. Portraits...

.... For instance, the imperial government of Ethiopia used photography to its advantage but was extremely cautious of the USSR. His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I (r. 1930 74) was a Cold War ally of the United States, shared an antifascist stance with the likes of Yugoslavia s Marshal Tito, and refused...

... by looking the fetish object squarely in the face sal yet Ethiopian mother under that title. These include Aleka Gebre Selassie Adil (1960) and Tesfaye Mandefro (1965). In addi- can love recognize its very own content. Cherinet’s tion, Afewerk Tekle...

... your grandfather play a very important matter is. Only at the end with that statement about my role in Ethiopian history during Haile Selassie’s reign, he childhood home does one realize that this video really is was also a prominent writer. Please tell me more about the a personal journey. Up...