3828856362?profile=originalEmperor Haile Selassie’s, 225th descendant of Queen Makeda and King
Solomon, 125th birthday will be celebrated on July 23, 2017 at his
birth place, Ejersa Goro.

The highlight of activities for this celebration will include
disclosure of the intended construction of the library, museum and
social center. In the attachment below are three preliminary designs
by Mr. Mohammed Ahemed and his associates.

We are grateful to Mr. Mohammed and his associates and other
contributors from at home and abroad for their praiseworthy
contribution. In this occasion, we would like to invite other
designers to join in this historical venture, by presenting their
alternative designs. It is expected that these designs will reflect
the resemblance of Guennette Lul (the first palace of the Emperor) and
Jubilee palace.

Very special thanks to Tehran University for promising to present
their alternative designs and also for sending the family tree of
Empress Menen, wife of the Emperor, for use in this
future museum.

The Objective of the project is to:

1. Create a worthy memorial for the Great
Emperor – the first leader who challenged
the western leaders’ moral in the 1930s– ,
advised the UN not to be an organization of
individual nations interest, but of
humanity at large, named the father of
Africa and the defender of the faith and
Small Nations.

2. Collect and preserve artifacts and materials
that demonstrate the Emperor’s life and
works

3. Provide the above information to
researchers, students and tourists.

The Project will be constructed on 23,000 sq. meters of ground. It
will include pavilions for each country the Emperor has visited. In
these pavilions photos, films, newspapers, and magazines which will be
reflected the moments of his visits. For instance, viewers will find
statements such as what the Japan news paper, Asahi Shimbun stated
during the Emperor’s visit to Japan in 1955: “What a dignify soul has
arrived on this part of the world!”

The Museum and Library interior and exterior walls will be decorated
with symbols, relics, and the monograms of the Emperor. The perimeter
of the center will be enclosed by a wall and on both sides of the wall
different historical and prophetic speeches of the Emperor, including
the 1936 and 1963 will be engraved.

In 1936 at the League of Nations, the Emperor challenged the big
powers’ moral and said, “Apart from the kingdom of the Lord there is
not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other.” In 1963,
he advised the UN to be the functional organization and said, “We have
to
become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our
ultimate allegiance not to nation but to our fellow men within the
human community.”

There will be a fountain in the center of the courtyard. At the front,
the customary posture of the Emperor of holding two forefingers each
pointed downwards and thumb held upwards will be depicted in a very
large gold plated size.

On a park upon a hill adjacent to the compound, a statue of the
Emperor will be erected. At the foot of the statue, images of a lion,
cow, cheetah, horse, donkey, dog, bird, and rooster will be carved.
These animals clustered altogether will testify the moral characters
of the Emperor.

It has been said that the greatness of any person’s moral progress can
be judged by the way he or she treats animals.

Throughout his life, the Emperor has been referred as a friend of
animals and birds. "In the 1950s, the nation didn't know the meaning
of animal rights – and it still does not – and 20 years before the
animal rights movement was established in England, the Emperor ordered
the outlaw of traditionally carrying roosters, hanging them upside
down on a stick," Ato Amede Wondeafrash, Vice Minister of the Ministry
of Agriculture stated. "The Emperor proclaimed that the roosters
should be carried in an open container to market," Ato Amede added.

The Emperor strictly opposed beating and mistreating domestic animals.
According to General Fresenbet, “On his way to Debr-zait, now called
Beshofto, the Emperor noticed a peasant cruelly beating his wounded
donkey which hardly can walk, and  ordered the animal to be carried by
lorry to his near palace, Fairfield, for recovering. When he paid the
cost of the donkey, he advised the peasant that although the donkey
doesn’t speak, it does suffer pain.”

Ato Kerose Yohanes, a former officer of ministry of agriculture in
department of Animal husbandry said, “The Emperor made it law that the
maximum number of passengers on a Gare( horse drawn cart) must not
exceed three, including the driver. In addition to that, he ordered
that Gares should not be driven on steep slopes”.

As the Emperor loved animals, unconditional love reciprocated back to
him. Such love from two dogs named Paul and Lulu were among them.
“Every throne court day, while the Emperor is in his office, Paul will
get up from the Emperor’s feet and go to the court chamber and lie
down next to the chair of the Emperor and wait for him. When the
Emperor gets up from his office, Paul would sense that and woof and
the attendants signal to the audience so that they would rise up from
their seats to welcome the Emperor. This story is taken from the
unreleased documentary film of “Why Selassie loves animals”?

"While Paul accompanied the Emperor at the office and library, the
famous small Lulu lead where the Emperor moves and checks the safety
of the path. Lulu’s reputation was not only in the streets of
Ethiopia, but abroad as well. In 1968, he accompanied the Emperor on
several state visits. Unfortunately, it was discovered that due to the
law of the country, Lulu couldn’t enter Australia. Hence it was
arranged for him to stay in Seoul, South Korea which was the Emperor’s
next destination. Five days later when the Ethiopian Airplane landed
at Seoul airport, Lulu was among the dignitaries to welcome the
Emperor. As soon as Lulu saw his master, he dashed out of the crowd
and ascended to the stairs and rolled over the Emperor’s feet. The
next day, the Korean Herald flashed the news of the unique welcoming
on its cover page. The circulation of the paper rose up so much so
that it was necessary to print three times within a day." (Source is
taken from unpublished book, “Why Ethiopia joined in the Korea war” by
Teshom Derbe).

Lulu was the first Ethiopian dog to have a statue constructed on its
burial ground inside the palace. “The work of the statue has been made
by Japanese, who was employed as the palace botanist. He did it to be
remembered as the first maker of a dog statue in Ethiopia. However,
the anti- Haile Selssie critics have used it for propaganda business,
saying that the Emperor cared a lot more for a dog than his people,”
Ato Wondoson, the court attendant said.

The Emperor was probably the only person in the world at that time
that when the concept of the pet therapy was not introduced to science
and who knew a dog could be a reliable stress-healer in the middle of
difficulty. During the battle of Maychew, a dog named Rosa marched
with him. After the battle, she also went to England into exile. Rosa
provided a life time service, comfort, love, and devotion both at war
and in exile.

The British author, Keith Bowers, introduced Rosa to history in his
book, Imperial Exile, stated, “The Captain of the ship who sailed the
Emperor during his exile from Djibouti to England in 1935 noticed that
Rosa looked like she had lost sight in her left eye after she was
injured when she refused to leave the Emperor’s side in the heat of
the Battle of Maychew.”

Ato Teku Adane, a member of the Emperor’s special cabinet, during an
interview recently said, “The Emperor was relaxing at his palace when
he returned from visiting schools, factories, prisons, and hospitals
through means of throwing food to birds in which they would
immediately come to eat. Then, he would pause and smile watching them
eat”.

The Emperor’s intimacy was not only with birds and domestic animals,
but also with cheetahs and lions. “A lion from Ogden was sent to the
Emperor by Colonel Tades Gebre (later General) as a gift. Three days
later the Emperor wanted to get acquainted with the new lion. When the
trainer, Sergeant Gebre Abebe, brought the lion in chains the Emperor
was standing on the stairs with some attendants, who carried meat on
trays. When the lion saw the meat it became aggressive, hurriedly the
attendants dropped the trays and ran away in all directions. When they
realized that the lion was not after them they came back to find the
Emperor and the lion in a friendly manner. To their surprise, the
Emperor was touching the lion softly and calling him repeatedly,
‘Tojo! Tojo!’ .When Ato Ayalew, one of the tray holders, narrated this
story his eyes filled with tears and said, “Getoch [His Majesty] was
not born like us, he is something different!”

The meaning of Tojo is still not known; however, Tojo was later named
Mekureya by the Emperor - meaning ‘my pride’ - and to keep his name
alive, the Imperial body guard named its soccer team Mekureya. After
Mekureya’s death, his body was mummified and can be seen now at the
Military Officers Academy near Jalmeda in Addis Ababa.

The 1966 Born Free film written by Hollywood acclaimed writer, Lester
Cole, and the producers, Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin who acknowledged the
help received from the Emperor. This film received a Grammy award
which was a story about an orphaned lion cub. The main character in
the movie, the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, was the daughter of Mekureya.

The four attendants of the Emperor further testified that the
Emperor’s most favorite animal in the palace were cows. They said that
he always took some time from his busy schedule to visit their barns.
Ato Ayalew who served in the palace for 45 years said, “Cows are very
intelligent and tender animals and whenever they see the Emperor they
rush towards him. Although to us they are simply cows, to him each has
a name: Ayelche(She out-shined), Chaltu(Beautiful in Ormofiya
language), Tegabowa( Pompous), etc. He named them after their looks
and characters. When they peacefully lick the salt from his hand, he
happily smiles. One day, he claimed that keeping them in the barn all
the time is another form of captivity”.

Recently scientific studies have found that those who have a companion
animal, whether it be a fish, horse, bird, cow, goat, cat, or dog are
highly emotional and have a strong spiritual intelligence. They are
also extremely kind and fair to their fellow human beings.

Today the Emperor’s reign is sighted by many as የደጉ ዘመን (Yedegu
Zemen), meaning the era of kindheartedness. So much so, the nation’s
nationalism has reached to an unusual high peak. “Every day when the
flag is raised and lowered at 6 a.m and 6 p.m people out of tribute,
whether they are on streets, or in cars, or in houses automatically
stop what they are doing and stand straight until the ceremony is
over. The majority of people swear in the name of the flag or the
Emperor to express nothing but the truth. Students from different
religion and ethnic background studying abroad feel so homesick that
they can't even wait for a graduation ceremony. They rush home as soon
as they finished their course. They request their degrees and other
relevant documents to be sent to them through the post office. The
driving force behind their action is eagerness to serve Ethiopia and
the Emperor, to up lifts the welfare of their family, and lastly of
themselves,” Colonel Dr Mekonnen Muluneh, the first Ethiopian
recipient of the Hennery Dunant’s award, said.

The Emperor’s treatment of the nation was like compared to the modern
day parents’ to their children. Dejazmach Terfe Asres, a student of
the 1950s at Negest Saba(Queen Sheba) at Makele, said, “While the
students in Addis Ababa called the Emperor Ababa Jhanhoye (meaning My
Father Emperor), and in Eritrea and Tigrai, they called him, ወዲ ላሕመን
,Wde-Laheman, (Meaning Source of our wealth in Tigraigna language).

The Emperor’s kindness, especially towards those who were rejected,
unwanted and despised people, began from his early public services. He
built the first elderly home at Deber Lebanoes when he was Ras Tafari
at the time when an elderly home as such was not known. This shelter
house is still serving, and on its wall is engraved, "Rastafari built
this house for elders."

Seventeen years later, upon his returning from exile, Bath, UK, he
donated his house to the British’s poor elderly citizens. Now elders
are using it and every month the first Sabbath Rastafarians gather
around to play their famed song: “The Lion of Judah shall break every
chain, and give us a victory again and again!” In 1945, he donated his
palace to be the University of Addis Ababa.

The four Muslim female relatives of the Emperor named Monta Yimer,
Fatima Ali, Hawa Endre, and Lubama Ali were given during an interview
which conducted for the study of Islam & Haile Selassie gave
testimonies that the Emperor distributed 90 Gasha land or 360
hectares( Eighth times bigger than the Vatican city) in Wello province
to his Muslim female cousins that he inherited from his mother,
Yeshe-Embet Ali, who in turn received from her father, Fetawrari Ali
Ferede, governor of Wer-ilu district.

In 1952, the Emperor decreed, “Religion is personal, but Country is
for all”. He facilitated mosques to be built in several places,
including the Somali region of Ethiopia, Jijiga, which still has the
symbol of Kehas (Haile Selassie the First).

“If anybody says there is a division between the Ethiopian Muslims and
Christians that person is not only wrong, but he also an enemy of
Ethiopia,” the Emperor addressed from Eritrea Mosque. Muslims who
benefited from his education policy joined him later in his
administration and were appointed as ministers and ambassadors.
Muslims entering the government services were the first in the history
of Ethiopia.

“During my youth in the 1950s, the mass people of Muslims were
chanting ‘Feda Yehun Nebse le Haile Selassie’, meaning may the soul of
Haile Selassie enter heaven” said Hajji Omar Hussein, age 85, who grew
up chanting this song in Addis Ababa.

In Fetawrari Amede's recent published book, his friend and he prayed
for the soul of Haile Selassie in order to inherit the kingdom of
heaven when they made Hajj at Mecca, Saudi Arabia. They knew that
their prayer was against the dogma, but they believe exception was
necessary for Haile Selassie to be made.

The first Amharic translation of the Holy Quran, originally from the
Arabic language, was published by the Emperor in 1959. This helps to
give more independence for the Ethiopian Muslims from Arab's over
rule. Similarly, the following year, he succeeded in breaking the
Egyptian Coptic rule over the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

Abuna Yesaque, who was sent by the Emperor to the western hemisphere
and considered by Afro-Caribbean Orthodox followers as the Pan-African
archbishop said: “For 1600 years, 110 Egyptian bishops have ruled the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Egyptian bishops were paid in gold for
their services and annually Ethiopia had paid a large sum of gold to
Egyptian Coptic. It is believed that this wealth was to build and
develop monasteries all over Egypt.”
The Emperor not only changed the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox
Church, but also that of Egypt in which it was stated in the Coptic
(Greek language) that bishop should not be appointed from Ethiopia.

After the Ethiopia church’s independence from Egypt in 1959, the
Emperor advised the first five Ethiopian Archbishops, who were
consecrated in Egypt, that the color of the Devil’s image inherited
from Coptic be changed into green, instead of being black. “It was
His Majesty’s version of the Devil’s that was painted in green on the
wall of the St Trinity College in Addis Ababa, and at the St
Tekl-Haymanot Church in Deber Lebanos”, Aba Habte Mariam said (later
Abuna Melksadiq), the first Dean of the St Trinity College who now
lives in California.

It is unfortunate most of the Ethiopian churches are still using the
version copy of Michaela Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael Sanzio
on which a black man appeared as a devil and a white man as an angel.
On the same subject, the Emperor articulated in 1963 at the UN, in
which he said, “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and
another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned…
,the African continent will not know peace.”

As he was the defender of the defenseless, he also defended the women
rights. In 1951, without violating the age old tradition that
prohibited women to enter the St Mary church, Axum, where the Arch of
the Covenant is placed, he built in the same area a new St Mary Church
and allowed women to enter. On the wall of this church, his message is
excerpted: “Let this church be a place of worship for women and men.”

November 2, 1930, during his coronation, he revealed his belief to the
world in the equality of gender by allowing his beloved wife, Empress
Menen, to be crowned on the same day. He revolutionized the 3, 300
year history of Ethiopia, in which no other Kings or Queens, perhaps
in the world, had been crowned together as husband and wife. In 1946,
the Empress Menen High School, which he built for women only is
affirmed his unwavering belief to the equality of gender.

“In addition to his own and adopted children, he was the father of the
fatherless such as those who were abandoned, disabled and blinded”, Dr
Yesaque Haile Selassie said. Having benefited from the Emperor’s
kindness as an orphan, he is now writing a book about his childhood
memories, in which he said, “As a street kid when I did not know who
my father was, the Emperor’s powerful name, Haile Selassie was
available for me and for many other orphans. The school, Yewtatoche
Menche (The Fountain of Youth), Tesfa Kokobe (Hope of
emancipation),Tensaye Birhan (The resurrection light) were built for
orphan and poor children. Out of these schools many great people
graduated and became Doctors, engineers, lawyers, ministers, and
Generals”.

In his part, Ato Demese Abebe said, “As blind people, street children
and beggars roam the center of Addis Ababa, one day we were rounded up
by the Emperor’s retinues and were taken to a special boarding school,
which is built for blind children. I graduated in 1973 from Law
school, which changed my identity from a street drifter to court house
lawyer”.

Ethiopia was lucky to have the Emperor at a time when education was a
forbidden fruit - the followers of the Orthodox faith thought modern
education would convert their children into the Catholic’s faith while
the Ethiopian Muslims considered their children would become
Christian. In the middle of this, the Emperor held the portfolio of
minister of education himself.

To encourage families the Emperor said, “Having a child and not
sending to school is as equal as murdering.”  In his message to poor
students, he said, “Being born from an established family is not an
achievement; the audacity of aspiring to improve yourself is the most
precious success.” In order to reassure that
Ethiopia-wenet(Ethiopianism-the sum total of culture, history,
literature, astronomy, geography, art, mathematics, sports,
agriculture, and religions since time immemorial) would not be in vain
and said, “ ሁሉን መርምሩ
የሚበጀውን ያዙ” meaning, “examine all but choose and follow the good one."
This quote is engraved on Sidest Kilo University wall which later
defined the destiny of the anti Haile Selassie’s generation which
examined only communism and became communist.

The Emperor’s kindness has no boundary and it goes beyond his empire.
He gave scholarships to African students who were then under colonial
rule. Education to him was the tool to abolish colonialism in Africa.
He welcomes refuges such as Armenians, Russians, Yugoslavians, and
Palatines. It is to be noted that large numbers of Palatines were to
be seen on the street of Addis Ababa in the 1950s.

His cousin, Lij Araya Abebe, who was the second person next to Dr
Malaku Bayan in establishing EWF (Ethiopian World Federation), said
that the Emperor sent him to England in 1945 to give financial and
material support to Pan African activities. He remembered during
winter that he donated heavy Jackets also to a number of individuals,
including Jomo Kenyatta, who later became the first president of the
independent Kenya.

Though the Emperor was the King of a very poor country, this had not
stopped him to do good to big or small nations. He donated small
amounts of money to UK, Germany, Greece, Japan, China,
Nigeria,Madagascar, and so on when they were struck by natural
disasters. The grant of 500 hectares of fertile land in Shashemene to
those Africans origin who wanted to emigrate from the racist western
nations is a living testimony for his moral fiber.

Malaku Bayen, the only doctor at the battle of Machew, in his letter
to his wife, Dorothy Bayan, wrote in 1936, “The Emperor was advised to
take the one million pound asset of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
during our departure in exile. However, he refused and said that the
asset is a property for many people. However, on our way to Djibouti,
every station, Besha(Beshaword Habtold) enabled to collect some money
from people who were generous to us.”

In the preceding paragraph, the Emperor’s innumerable benevolence is
sprinkled, but what is more of an amazing behavior is that of stopping
his car whenever he sees a bride and bridegroom on their way, cheering
them and giving generous financial donation. “During our wedding
ceremony on the Bole road, we stopped our car when we saw the
Emperor’s car approaching. He also stopped his car and beckoned us to
come near and then blessed our marriage and gave us some money and
passed on,” Weyzero Aida Hussein said.

The role of the Emperor like his predecessors is to maintain the
continuity of Ethiopiawent. To advance the core values of Ethiopiawent
through modernization, he envisioned Japan as a model because Japan
adopted the western education without losing its values and cultures.
Japan has no desire also to have a colony in Africa and both have
defeated the European aggressions: Ethiopia at the battle of Adwa and
Japan at the battle of Tsushima.

Right after the Emperor’s coronation, the two nations signed an
economic and military cooperation. In 1931, the Japanese constitution
was adopted for Ethiopia’s first written constitution. A book: ማኀደረ
ብርሃን ሀገረ ጃፓን, Mahader Berhan Hager Japan, meaning, Source of light-
The Nation of Japan, by the all rounded intellectual, His Excellency
Hiruy
Wold Selassie, seems to advocate the Emperor’s approach for
development of Ethiopia.

In 1932, three years before the Italy invasion, Japanese ships came at
Djibouti’s and Kenya’s ports to unload military supplies, including
fighter planes and gas masks; however, the European powers which
colonized the neighboring countries denied them the access of their
ports.

On the eve of the Italian invasion, President F. Roosevelt wrote the
following to his Middle East correspondent, “Ethiopia may defend
herself from her enemy, but can she be saved from her friends?” (He is
referring to Italy as the enemy, and France and England as friends.)
Roosevelt’s predication came true when England then became the de
facto ruler of Ethiopia for three years after it helped to drive the
fascists out of Ethiopia.

After liberating Ethiopia from the British indirect rule with his
diplomatic skill, the Emperor continued his progressive policy towards
modernization which was aborted by fascist raid. His second attempt
was also destroyed by the Ethiopian students who studied at home and
abroad but struggled to become communist. Though the students called
their movement
“Ethiopian Students Movement”, in fact it was a movement of adopting
the East- European values and cultures in the land where the ancestors
fought and died for the value of Ethiopiawente.

When the Emperor was sending students for higher education abroad he
said, “Adopting the European culture and history is similar to choose
a name after one’s step father”. Twenty years later, the students
adopted Stalinism, Maoism, Hoxhaism, and so on, as their role models.
Thirty years later, when communism collapsed all over the world they
turned their coats and adopted new “step fathers” from the western
nations. In this “middle passages” of the east-west ideologies, they
fell prey to the prophetic statements of the Emperor who constantly
advised them of the danger of mental slavery.

Unlike the Ethiopian students, the Japanese students who studied the
western education at home and abroad were not compelled to change the
values of their unique culture and traditions. Virtually they rebuild
Japan while the Ethiopians ruined the 3,300 years old social fabrics
and social contracts.

The Emperor’s foresight did not only define his anti generation but
also served as an autopsy on how the connecting tissues of the nation
was uprooted, displaced and dislocated.

Five years ago, during the first celebration of the Emperor’s birthday
at Ejersa Goro, Solomon Wacihun, a high priest, chanted in Geze, “ If
the river of the Nile is ink and Ethiopia is parchment, one still
can’t finish writing the story of the Lion of Judah.” Although we
cannot finish the Emperor’s stories, the future museum and library
will go some way to begin to tell it to the new generation.

Happy 125th Birthday
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  • Brother thanks for this  food for the brain.  Happy birthday to Haile Selassie. 
    I'm happy that you mentioned Abba Yesaq I was one of his driver.  Haile Meskel and aka Ras Emmanuel check out my new album THAT DAY by Ras Emmanuel on iTunes. Thanks.


    On Jul 24, 2017 7:26 AM, "Raa Tehuti

  • Greetings

    Give thanks for the treatise on HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I, although its not clear who wrote it, give thanks anyway. It's fitting piece for the 125th birthday anniversary.
    The Sunday Times of London actually acknowledged the Emperor's Earthday, a first to my knowledge.  
    Raa Tehuti mentions the UNITY (approach of the Emperor) that put the people and country first.  This is something rarely seen in Africa where leaders continue to hand over resources for a pittance including fertile soil, the real gold. UNITY results in legacy for future generation and thanks to the Emperor, Ethiopia is blessed with many fine institutions and buildings.  Let us pray that whatever design chosen for the aforementioned project, it is in keeping with the Emperor's vision for Ethiopia. And not one of the monstrosities more associated with the chinese vision for Ethiopia.
    Several mentions of the 80th Anniversary for the Ethiopian World Federation Inc but little planning for how InI will celebrate the forthcoming year. Is this because of dis-UNITY?
    Bless
  • Greetings Sisters and Brothers 
    May the spirit of our Ankhcestors find each one and their loved ones in good health 
    We acknowledge the abundance of efforts and impeccable works of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, and Empress Wolete Menen I,  have bequeaths to Ethiopians -at home and those abroad, Crowned at the same time , which only a person with fortitude and clear vision of what equity of man and woman is really about.


    It always interesting to read how individuals speak of His Imperial Majesty, regarding  what he stated , how he did what he did, when he did what he did, and why he did  what he did… and the outcome of what his actions, and the benefits thereof.
     
    Whenever it comes to the issue of UNITY, many people believe that it’s just a matter of attending meetings, being seen in the right circles, saying the right things.  True to this characteristics its merely 'lip service' as many of these individuals are the very same who created major conflicts and divisions rather than always seek solutions, especially when it is not in their short term plans/programs.

    Many of these individuals speak about His Imperial Majesty(rightly) however they fail, due to seeking their own selfish need/greed to fully recognize the importance of what the word ( UNITY) actual represent.
    A good example of this UNITY is when during in 1975 Mengusti a common criminal/mass murderer
    (someone who grew up in the palace) had the effrontery  to take the outrageous actions which he took which directly resulted in plunging the State of Abyssinia back into the clutches of our enemies from Europe/USA, the old scramblers of 1885 and which now allows the new scramblers from China. Japan Korea India - to enter and take over due to petty and partisanship.
     
    These types of individuals have and continue to be the actual stumbling blocks of African UNITY progress and development , rather than other nations, Just as His Imperial Majesty stated;
    ‘It’s not the strength power or determination of those who seek to undermine us that will succesed - but rather the lack of our UNITY’
     
    What is the lesson here-  as conscious Afrikans celebrate the 125th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty-  its simple this -during that period of terror, which remains unresolved now. Should His Imperial Majesty wanted not to allow that incident to happened, there is no way on this planet that it would ever have occurred, however due to the personality and integrity of His Imperial Majesty he himself allowed it to take place rather than create a bloodshed amongst the innocents, this is what UNITY means accepting  that at times you put the interest of your people/ country/membership FIRST rather than own selfish need/greed which cannot achieve nothing except confusion, chaos conflicts amongst self, which always leaves doors open to foreign interventions and its harmful effects.
     
    Iperson truly know that conscious sisters and brothers had a grand and glorious time of the  occasion of the 125th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty. Rise up genuine sisters and brothers of The Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated  an ORGANISATION given to Afrikans at a time of war, which we is not ended yet, even though our armegedeon has passed , there is and has not been a consolidation of those victories- Rise up for the up coming 80th Anniversary August 25th 2017.
     
    Love and Light
     


    On Monday, 24 July 2017, 2:01, Ambrose King <ambroser.king@gmail.com> wrote:
  • Dear Brother Mulugeta,
    Thank you for writing such a beautiful discourse on His Imperial Majesty's great work for Ethiopia and Mankind.  History has yet to write the truth concerning our beloved Emperor but some day the truth will be known in all corners of the Earth.
    We the Ethiopian World Federation in Addis will be celebrating at Shashemane His Majesty's 125th Earth Day with traditional NyabinghI.  More Izes to the King of Kings, Emperor Haile Selassie First and Happy Earth Day.
    Please be reminded that the Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated (EWF Inc.) will be 80 years old this year on August 25th 2017 and we would like to commemorate this day with something to remember the great gift of a Constitution promulgated by His Majesty and Dr Malaku Bayen for the Black Peoples of the World to effect the much needed UNITY.
    RasTafarI Liveth.
    Ras Wolde Selassie-Tages King.


    On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mulugeta Haile <mulugetahaile123@gmail.com> wrote:

    • rom: Mulugeta Haile < mulugetahaile123@gmail.com>
    • To: " theblacklist@lists.riseup.net" < theblacklist@lists.riseup.net>
    • Subject: [TheBlackList] This morning 125th birthday of Haile Selassie celebrated
    • Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:52:16 -0700
    This morning at Ejersa Goro, Kombolcha & Harar city marked the 125th birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie. During the prayer at Ejersa Goro at St Kidan Mehiret, in which the umbilical cord of the Emperor was buried, Psalm 96:5 : " His grace is inside the temple" has been read.
  • Dear Brother Mulugeta,
    Thank you for writing such a beautiful discourse on His Imperial Majesty's great work for Ethiopia and Mankind.  History has yet to write the truth concerning our beloved Emperor but some day the truth will be known in all corners of the Earth.
    We the Ethiopian World Federation in Addis will be celebrating at Shashemane His Majesty's 125th Earth Day with traditional NyabinghI.  More Izes to the King of Kings, Emperor Haile Selassie First and Happy Earth Day.
    Please be reminded that the Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated (EWF Inc.) will be 80 years old this year on August 25th 2017 and we would like to commemorate this day with something to remember the great gift of a Constitution promulgated by His Majesty and Dr Malaku Bayen for the Black Peoples of the World to effect the much needed UNITY.
    RasTafarI Liveth.

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