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The African Union (AU) has unveiled a statue of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie I at its borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision in Ethiopia's borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision city Addis Ababa. The borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision served as King of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The statue was created in recognition of the borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision Haile Selassie played in the borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision of the Organization of African Union (OAU) in 1963. He had a vision to free all African countries from colonialism and create borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision and free independent countries on the continent. Speaking at the borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision of the OAU, he said: "May this borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision last 1,000 years." The OAU lasted for 39 years before it changed into the African Union in 2002. The AU continues Haile Selassie's borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision of achieving greater borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision between African nations.

Emperor Haile Selassie I was borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision in 1892 into an Ethiopian family that traced its borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba three thousand years ago. He was a borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision influential figure in borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision Ethiopian history. He was a skilled borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision on the international stage during a time of great borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision. He helped lead Ethiopia to become a charter borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision of the United Nations. Ethiopia remained a country that was borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision colonized. Haile Selassie is revered in the Rastafarian borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision. Around one million Rastafarians around the world consider him as a messiah who came to Earth to spread the word of God. The 1973 famine in Ethiopia led to his borncapitalcontemporarycreationemperoreventualheadquartershighlyinaugurationmemberneverpoliticianreligionrolerootsstrongturmoilunionunityvision removal from the throne.