ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — From the grand palace he had constructed on a hill overlooking this city 130 years ago, Emperor Menelik II plotted the brutal campaigns that would consolidate all of what is ...
I. MagdalaThe mountainside fortress is called Magdala. It is perched above the Ethiopian highlands, a stone fist raised against the sky. In its austere regality an eleven-year-old boy named Sahle ...
Her Sublime and Imperial Majesty the Empress Zaudita, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. conferred last week upon her cousin Ras Tafari, the trusted Regent of her Empire, a potent title; “King ...