BLESSED AFRICA DAY! The
day our Holy Father of Africa Emperor Haile Selassie I, the Founding
Father of Africa now recognized by the AU (African Union.
Below is an informative report from
Mauritius and an excerpt from the book of a Memoir by the Former
Assistant Minister & Press Secretary to Haile Selassie. The Book is
entitled "In the Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie" by Ayalew
W. Giorgis. Southern Heritage Press (2002). St. Petersburg, Florida.
"Many observers were taken by
surprise when spectacular events took place in Ethiopia with the
unfolding of the OAU (Organization of African Unity) in Addis Ababa
(May 25, 1963). It happened because all circumstances favored it and
because the statesmanship of one man, Haile Selassie, befitted it more
than any among the leaders of the time. He was not of the Nkrumahs,
Sekou Toures or Keitas brand or the Tafawa Balewas or even the
Kenyatta of his close friend and good neighbor, Kenya. Nor was he a
moderate like the American puppet Tolbert Tubman or Siaka Stevens or
Senghor of Senegal. Haile Selassie was a special brand from the
Ancient House but also a progressive Monarch of the African and
trans-Red Sea part of the globe imbued ad galvanized wit the rise of
African nationalism at the advent of the OAU...ever since he first let
Nkrumah join him in the set of visions he had for Africa, the two men
seemed to show the continent that militant and moderate, and monarchy
at that, could work together for the common greater cases of Africa,
primarily the freeing of the continent from the last vestiges of
colonialism." (Pages 162-164)
