In 1924 when the writer was a student in Geneva he attended a theatre in which one of the skits made fun of Ras Tafari Makonnen, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (now Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia).

Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa Goro Province, Ethiopia. His mother was Yeshimbet Ali Abajiffar and his father was Ras ...

At Lang'ata Cemetery on Langata Road is buried a freedom fighter and great Pan-Africanist by the name Ras Makonnen. He was born Nathaniel Thomas Griffiths in the Caribbean state of Guyana but changed ...