This blog is all about the brief biography of Emperor Haile Selassie I and the major events attached to his reign in Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie was born Tafari Makonnen in Ethiopia in 1892. He married Wayzaro Menen in 1911, daughter of Emperor Menelik II.
By becoming prince (Ras), Tafari became the focus of the Christian majority’s approval over Menelik’s grandson, Lij Yasu, because of his progressive nature and the latter’s unreliable politics.
He was named regent and heir to the throne in 1917, but had to wait until the death of the Empress Zauditu to assume full kingship.