The emperor Haile Selassie I and the Rastafriary movement in Ethiopia

analysis of the speech in the League of Nations in 1936 and Marcus Garvey in The Blackman journal

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze Emperor Haile Salassie I's speech in the League of Nations in 1936 and the Rastafari movement, especially in the physical, psychological, cultural, historical and political contexts, as well as to analyze its agents and ideology. Base; and also Marcus Garvey's speech published in The Blackman. The proposal is to return to the origin of these two resources as a way of attempting to change the scenario in Ethiopia's history, since, regardless of what happened, Africans will always fight for Africa. It will be presented the peculiar data, the components involved and the different contexts to be analyzed within the discourse of Haile Salassie I and its relation with the origin of the Rastafarianismo or Rastafari Movement, and also the ideology that is based Marcus Garvey in its relation with Haile Salassie I. The research is a bibliographical review based on the oral speech of Haile Salassie I and the article published by Marcus Garvey in The Blackman. The relevance of the research lies in the struggle of some of the several important figures who have gone through the history of Africa, more specifically the people of Ethiopia in the struggle for a more just nation. We conclude with the importance of these discourses for the historiography of Africa, and more specifically the history of Ethiopia.