The African Union (AU) has put a achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie I in its achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . Selassie was achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word from 1930 to 1974. The statue is for his achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word in creating the Organization of African Union (OAU). His achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word was for African achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word free from achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . He said: "May this achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word last 1,000 years." The OAU lasted for 39 years. It changed into the AU in 2002. The AU continues Selassie's vision of achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word greater African achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . Emperor Selassie was achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word in 1892. His family's achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word go back 3,000 years to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was an achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word figure in Ethiopian achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . He was a skilled achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word and helped Ethiopia become a charter achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word of the U.N. Haile Selassie is a achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word part of the Rastafarian achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . Rastafarians believe he is a messiah who came to Earth to spread God's achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word . The 1973 famine in Ethiopia led to his eventual achieving big born colonialism countries headquarters history important king member politician religion removal role roots statue union unity vision word from power.