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All hail The Messiah

How did Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia come to be worshipped as a God incarnate by the growing Rastafarian movement thousands of miles away in Jamaica? Laura Hammond and Asfa-Wossen Asserate discuss the origins of this belief about the man previously called β€˜Ras Tafari’.

Photo: image showing Haile Selassie at Shashamene in Ethiopia. (Getty Images)

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2 minutes