Haile Selassie

From Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City

Halie Selassie (1)

Ethiopian Emperor Halie Selassie - born as Tafari Makonnen, the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He is considered to be the Black Messiah and God incarnate by many Rastafarians.

Work Cited

Murrel, Nathaniel, William Spencer, and Adrian McFarlane. Chanting Down Babylon. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Selassie.jpg