My Life and Ethiopia's Progress: The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie I Volume 2: Addis Ababa 1966

by Haile Selassie I, Ezekiel Gebrissa (Translator), Harold G. Marcus (Editor)

This second volume covers the history of Haile Sellassie during his exile in England, his presentation of Ethiopia's appeal to the League of Nations and his return home after victory over Mussolini.

Genres: Ethiopia

214 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Last Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 with lineage tracing back to King Solomon and Queen Sheba and the Jewish emperor of Ethiopia Menelik I.

During world war II Selassie fled to England where he became a allied propagandist. And was reinstated by the British as the emporer of Ethiopia to be overthrown in 1974.

In 1975 he died under suspicious circumstances. The post-communist government denied him a royal funeral.

Selassie is seen as a messsiah/holy person to the rastafarian faith.

Reviews

[Mando · Rating 5 out of 5]

Burn Babylon

[Mark Baker · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting to compare the political climate pre WW2 to today’s (2024).

[Hamza · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book deals entirely with the freeing of Ethiopia from Fascist Italy, and the Emperor's return from exile. As such, it's shorter than the first volume, and ends on a very uncertain note since the Emperor wrote his memoirs years later before being taken out of power and ultimately executed by the Derg. Be that as it may, it's a good account of how he came back to power during the rocky time period of WWII, dealing with both help and BS from the British. Definitely worth reading, even if only as a conclusion to the first volume. I'm sure English-reading people were devastated to have to wait around 25 years before this second volume was translated. Now, if only we had a Volume 3...

[Elijah Makonnen]

i cant open the books