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Makonnen Walda-Mikael, was a person of great importance. But any discussion of Haile Selassie should begin with his mother. Yeshimabet Ali was not a member of the imperial leading elite. 2 Yeshimabet is a name with a great promise, meaning "mother of a thousand." But Yeshimabet Ali would not fulfill the name's promise. Nine times she became pregnant, and eight times she gave birth , but none of the babies survived their first year. Tafari was her tenth child and the only one to thrive into adulthood. While pregnant with him, the town of Harar, where her husband governed, was under plague. So, she relocated to a poor little town nearby 3 to give birth more safely. The exhausted mother died nineteen months after Tafari's birth, in March 1894. "All this I heard, of course, much later," Haile Selassie wrote in his memoires, "from those in charge of my upbringing." The baby was baptized in Harar and was named Tafari, meaning "he who is feared and respected." A baptismal name was also declared: Haile Selassie, a name that connotes the power of the trinity in the classical language of Ge`ez. By order of Ras Makonnen, baby Tafari was to be raised by his niece, Mazlekia Haile Selassie. Four

Publisher

Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published

2018

Language

EN