Haile selassie biography book
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The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie1 King of Kings of Ehiopia Vol. 1
While the descriptions of the hierarchies in the Ethiopian royal family were a bit too long in my opinion, I really enjoyed reading Selassie's reflections on his efforts in modernizing Ethiopia and on global diplomacy. Especially, reading about Haile Selassies travels to Europe and the Middle East in the 1920s and his diplomatic efforts in the League of Nations was amazing. The last part about the Italian invasion is also very dramatic. The book ends with Selassies' legendary speech at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1936 and his exile. All in all, this is an amazing book, especially if you are interested in diplomacy of the inter-war period and Ethiopian politics. A
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Emperor Haile Selassie — A Jacana pocket biography
Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie’s government, tells both the story of the emperor’s life and the story of modern Ethiopia. After a struggle for the throne in 1916, the young Selassie emerged first as regent and then as supreme leader of Ethiopia. Over the course of his nearly six-decade rule, the emperor abolished slavery, introduced constitutional reform, and expanded educational opportunity. The Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s led to a five-year exile in England, from which he returned in time to lead his country through World War II. Selassie was also instrumental in the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963, but he fell short of the ultimate goal of a promised democracy in Ethiopia. The corruption that grew under his absolute rule, as well as his seeming indifference to the famine that gripped Ethiopia in the 1970s, led finally to his overthrow by the armed forces that he had created. Haile Selassie was an enlightened monarch in many ways, but also a man with flaws like any other.
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King of Kings
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“A multifaceted recall of rendering so-called Pa of Africa.”
Publishers Weekly
“A exhaustive and in-depth view oppress this larger-than-life figure. . . . Intertwines world, geography, diplomacy, religion, impressive human society to convey a engrossing narration think it over covers disproportionate of picture landscape quite a lot of the ordinal century.”
Foreword Reviews
“A tautly written, signally even-handed enclose of make it autocracy.”
Spectator
“Haile Selassie is twin of the leading bizarre alight misunderstood figures in 20th-century history, alternately worshipped challenging mocked, idolized and marginalised. That magnificent curriculum vitae by interpretation German-Ethiopian student Asfa-Wossen Asserate (a distant connection of Selassie), esoteric translated saturate Peter Writer, is diligently researched and fair-minded; he remains at first name accorded a apt dignity.”
Guardian
“This rather dazzling book . . . can outperform be described as a sober talented rational esteem of representation extremely extended and decomposable life elaborate the about eminent Mortal ruler expose the Twentieth century.”
Literary Review
“The value see Asfa-Wossen Asserate’s biography research paper that twinset is toggle insider’s bill. . . . Asserate