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" My life and Ethiopia's progress " Haile Sellassie I King of Kings of Ethiopia Volume two Addis Ababa, 1966 E.C. In this volume, many will be reading for the first time of the attempts made by Mussolini to give the I Majesty millions of pounds and build him a palace in the country of HIS choice. But the I majesty replied and said: " I left my country, not to sell it, But to seek justice for my people and my country. The history of Ethiopia will not be despoiled by a guinea stained with the blood of Ethiopians." --Ras Miguel Lorne, Attorney-at-Law, Jamaica Paperback

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Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had-and continues to have- a massive impact on people of all races throughout the world. Catch a Fire chronicals his life and career as well as the milieu that shaped Marley's spiritual and political belief's. This fully revised and expanded new edition features fascinating inside information on the intrigues of the reggae music business, the dramatic ris of Bob's musical offspring, the complex legal struggles surrounding the Marley estate, and a sweeping social history of modern Jamaica and the origins of the rastafarian religion.

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A reader from Gaithersburg, MD USA Wrote: Tupac's book of poetry is by far the best book I have ever read and I have read many a books in my life. Tupac's poetry will move even the most cold hearted human being. Any one who's down and out and is looking for inspiration and hope for the future should read Tupac's poems. They are a collection of poems about his life but they are also poems that have a message in them and often that message is that tomorrow will be a brighter day. I never even knew Tupac wrote poetry untill everyone started talking about this book and when I finished reading it I cried cause I finally understood why he is so loved by so many millions of people. I went to SOuth AFrica summer of 2000 and people there were feeling Tupac too. There were posters of him in stores and messages of his name and legacy spray painted on walls everywhere. Tupac wasn't just an American hero and leader, he was the light that shone across the globe. Reading Tupac's book of poetry is like reading his soul and feeling his prescence with you. I would recommend this book to anyone. And for all you people out there who are over analyzing his poems and saying they aren't up to poetic standards or whatever, you need to open your mind and realize that poetry is poetry no matter what form it's in. The only thing is that people interpret it differently. I always have been and 4-ever will be one of tupac's # 1 fan.

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"Monster" Kody Scott, who here tells his electrifying life story: an angry, stunningly violent odyssey through gang warfare and prison to redemption. The acknowledgements page reveals Scott's continued wrath: Bullet-proof love is extended to Muhammad Abdullah and the Islamic Liberation Army...Teflon bullets are sent to the sell-outs. Scott is still fighting, only now for the New Afrikan Independence Movement, dedicated to creating a separate black nation. But, then, the author has always been at war: Drafted at age 11 into a set of the ghastly gang army of the L.A. Crips--an army of children gone wild in a concrete jungle--he shot his first man, a rival Blood, that same year, and for the next 15 years led a life spent defending his set by word, fist, and bullet: I liked to see the buckshot eat away their clothing, almost like piranha fish. Much of Scott's memoir is a horrifying chronicle of gang combat--shootings, betrayals, retaliations (Scott was shot six times in one ambush)--almost tedious in its unrelenting machismo and bloodshed, made palatable mostly by the author's deep knowledge of gang lore. Eventually, jail stints punctuate the street fighting; finally, in 1983, Scott, behind bars, meets a radical Muslim who teaches him that the real battle is with the white oppressors--a lesson that takes hold in the late 80's in Folsom Prison, where, amid outrageous depravity, Scott renounces gangsterism to embrace his new struggle. Today, Scott, 29, is back in prison, serving seven years for a healthy beating he gave to an unrepentant crack dealer. A savage document of the street that gives, and asks, no quarter. Anyone who wants to know why L.A. burned will find the chilling answer here.

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Always controversial during his lifetime (1892-1975), Haile Sellassie became, after his dethronement in 1974, a political icon to some, a monster to others, and to all a legend. There is no understanding modern Ethiopia without a grasp of the emperor's life. This first volume of a project three-volume biography describes Haile Sellassie's early training as a member of a cultural and political elite, a conditioning that led him to believe it was normal for an elite (later an oligarchy) to govern and exploit Ethiopia, even if many of its peoples did not benefit from the prevailing order. Once he became emperor, he viewed himself as the embodiment of Ethiopia's proud sovereignty and independence. Haile Sellassie was the architect of the centralized Ethiopian state. He transformed Addis Ababa, his ramshackle capital, into a core city; educated a cadre of "Young Ethiopians"; and developed the central government. He managed his country's political and economic entry into the modern world and in the process made Ethiopia the central actor in Northeast Africa and himself a global figure. Between 1920 and 1935 Ethiopia made important and obvious progress toward modernization, which Italy regarded as potentially threatening to its African colonies. Haile Sellassie, ever jealous of his country's sovereignty, redirected trade away from Europe toward Japan and the United States. By so doing he robbed France of a good economic reason to protect Ethiopia from Italy, he alienated Great Britain, and he permitted Rome to contemplate his nation's conquest. By 1934 Ethiopia was without allies and without the means to counter the Italian aggression. The emperor suffered defeat, exile, and despair, but he would return in 1941, as a phoenix, to restore the status quo ante.

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242 pages

Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x 8.99 x 5.99

Publisher: Red Sea Press

ISBN: 1569020086

(March 1995) Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.

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The first Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie is detailed with information on the little giant of a man who many peoples from all of life consider to be the returned Christ, the Messiah, or Defender of the Faith. Indeed, a remarkable and outstanding world leader. Got to read it. First time ever in paperback.

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335 pages

Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 7.02 x 5.00

Publisher: Research Associates School Times Publications

ISBN: 0948390409

(May 18, 1999)

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The Philosophy and Opinions, first published in two volumes in 1923 and 1925, quickly became a celebrated apologia for the leader of the largest Pan-African mass movement of all time. "As we approach the 1987 celebration of the centennial of Marcus Garvey's birth, the time seems appropiate for the United States and Jamaican governments to declare null and void the legal proceedings that unjustly sent him to jail in both countries. Nor should a mere 'pardon' suffice, presupposing as it does, the presence of guilt to begin with." --From the Preface.

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412 pages

Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 8.16 x 5.25

Publisher: Majority Press

ISBN: 0912469242

(November 1986)

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Iations of Jamaica and Rastafari is a Iconography and meditation about Jamaica and the uprising of the most fascinating controversial culture and philosphy of Rastafari A celebration...