Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born as the father of Ethio-jazz. "Ethio-jazz is a musical genre which puts the ...

the founding father kept the red, green and gold Ethiopian flag in his room at 75 Castle Road in 1931 England -a year after Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor having resisted colonization by ...

He came to the U.S. as an exchange student for his senior year of high school, then enrolled in Haile Selassie I University, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He spent just one year there. Menkerios’ English ...

Haile Selassie was guarded at all times by lions ... It was given to Geoffrey of Anjou, father of King Henry II of England when he was knighted in 1128. Barbary Lions were kept at the Tower ...