Remembering Father Hibbert, a founder of the Rasta movement who proclaimed Haile Selassie was divine

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Remembering Father Hibbert, a founder of the Rasta movement who proclaimed Haile Selassie was divine

When Haile Selassie was born in a village in eastern Ethiopia, he was named Lij Tafari. As a regent in the Ethiopian government, he took on the title Ras, meaning prince or chief. When he was crowned Emperor in 1930, he received another new name, this time a royal one: Haile Selassie, meaning “Power of...

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