Ethiopia's last emperor, the divine and saviour of blacks, Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I was born July 23, 1892, near Harer, Ethiopia, and died August 27, 1975, in, Addis Ababa). His original name was Tafari Makonnen, emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his country and who steered it into the mainstream of post-World War II African politics. He brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations and made Addis Ababa the major centre for the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union). Tafari was a great-grandson of Sahle Selassie of Shewa (Shoa)...