{"id":500121,"date":"2019-02-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=3c865a761cee9ec03af0121b6fb2fdf8"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:23","slug":"statue-of-emperor-haile-selassie-unveiled-remembering-ethiopias-last-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/500121","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Emperor Haile Selassie unveiled: remembering Ethiopia\u2019s last emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2019, coverage in Spanish-language and other outlets noted the unveiling of a <strong>statue of Emperor Haile Selassie<\/strong>, a reminder of how contested and enduring the last emperor\u2019s image remains in Ethiopian and diaspora memory\u2014from modernizer and League of Nations figure to autocrat overthrown in 1974.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423317\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Emperor-Haileselassie-in-Washington-DC-71lGvCD3SoL._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Statue of Emperor Haile Selassie unveiled: remembering Ethiopia\u2019s last emperor\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Statue politics in Ethiopia are never only about bronze: they signal which histories the state and cities choose to honor after regime change, war, and renaming drives.<\/p>\n<p>For Mereja readers, the item is kept as culture\/history reference alongside the wider global Rastafari reverence for Haile Selassie and domestic arguments over imperial legacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Haile-Selassie-I\">Historical context \u2013 Britannica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/statesparties\/et\">UNESCO \/ African heritage context<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Develan estatua del \u00faltimo emperador de Etiop\u00eda&nbsp;&nbsp;revistacambio.com.mx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Emperor-Haileselassie-in-Washington-DC-71lGvCD3SoL._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg?fit=894%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-266t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599929,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500121\/revisions\/599929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}