This defining figure in Ethiopian history was also seen as the returned messiah by the Rastafari movement. Name that emperor.

Haile Selassie I hoped to modernize Ethiopia and, holding internationalist views, it looked like he might. Under Selassie, Ethiopia became a member of the United Nations, while strengthening education and the police force in the country. But he is criticized for political oppression, and after the famine of 1973, he was removed from the throne and killed.

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