"Ras Tafari has travelled to Europe and America and is therefore no stranger to European hypocrisy and methods; he, therefore, must be regarded as a kind of a modern Emperor, and from what we understand and know of him, he intends to introduce modern methods and systems into his country."
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Marcus Garvey, in "The Coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari" in The Blackman (8 November 1930)
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Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie [Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኃá‹áˆˆ ሥላሴ, romanized: qädamawi haylä sÉ™llasé] (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was regent of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, including 5 years of exile from 1936 to 1941 in the period of Italian occupation. Though himself a life-long Christian, and a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church, he became revered as God incarnate by followers of the Rastafari movemen
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