Professor PLO Lumumba turns his attention to Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia and one of the most complex figures in modern African history.
To some, Haile Selassie was a reformer, statesman and powerful symbol of African resistance against imperialism. To others, his long reign represented authoritarianism, inequality and political repression.
Yet when Ethiopia faced invasion and Africa remained under the shadow of European colonialism, Selassie became something larger than one ruler.
He became a symbol.
A symbol of an Africa that refused to disappear.
A leader who stood before the world and reminded the international community that the conquest of one African nation threatened the dignity and freedom of an entire continent.
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