Emperor Haile Selassie: The Last Known King Of Ethiopia

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The King or the Messiah












Thousands are come from everywhere around Jamaica and gathered at Palisadoes airport (currently the Norman Manley International Airport) in Kingston, Jamaica. They are singing, beating drums, chanting and screaming heavily as it has never seen before. The heavy rain is pouring over their head but they all don’t seem to be bothered by it. The majority of the people are the followers of the Rastafarians faith with dread lock hairs and heavy ganja smokers. They all anxiously were waiting to see their savior the lion of Judah, the beloved king of Ethiopia, HIM (His Imperial Majesty) Emperor Haile Selassie I.
Minutes before the king’s arrival the rain stopped completely and the sun rise followed its turn to shine …show more content…

Selassie was born on July 23, 1982 from his father Ras Mekonen, a chief advisor to one of the greatest rulers of Ethiopia Empperor Menelik III. Selassie former name was Ras Tafari Mekonen until he became the Emperor In 1930. When black poor Jamaican heard that there is a new king in east Africa, Ethiopia, named Ras Tafari, they knew he was the King that Marcus Garvey had predicted. Quickly their religion name became Rastafarian and started believing the king as their savior god. The word Rastafari is came from the king’s name. In Ethiopian language of Amaharic Ras means head or a leader and Tafari is the name of the king Hile Selassie’s before he became Empror. Rastafarians use’s as the name of their …show more content…

Black Jamaican believes they are stolen as slave by Europeans and Arab slave traders from West Africa as far as Mt. Kenya in Africa. They are taken to the Caribbean more than five hundred years ago and forgotten by their ancestors there. They also believe that they have the roots of Solomon and queen Sheba which connects them to the Ethiopian King as well as Ethiopians. Selassie does have the roots of queen Sheba’s family train.
The Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey who campaigned for political and social change in Jamaica was told his followers “Look to Africa for the crowning of a black king, he shall be the redeemer.” This is the prophecy started the Rastafarians religion. However, Garvey was not Rastafarian. His philosophy of black Jamaicans rightful place to be in Africa after the slavery was abolished in 1833 has to do with the historic celebration of the Selassies’s arrival. Garvey died before the Rastafarian religion was born. Three years after Marcus Garvey spoke the prophecy, in 1930 Haile Selassie I became the Emperor of

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