Haile Selassie

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Haile Selassie
(1892-75, born Tafari Makonnen) emperor of Ethiopia from 1930-74 who introduced many social and economic changes, messiah of the Rastafarian religion


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Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I KGGCBGCMGGCVO (Ge'ez: , "Power of the Trinity"; July 231892 –  August 271975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 and de facto from 1916 to 1936 and 1941 to 1974. He is also considered to be the religious symbol for God incarnate among the Rastafari movement, founded in Jamaica in the early 1930s. The Rastafari also call Selassie HIM, Jah and Jah Rastafari.
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Haile Selassie
Noun
1. emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)
(synonym) Ras Tafari Makonnen, Ras Tafari
(hypernym) Emperor


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