Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only 26 African countries had achieved independence when, in February 1961, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ascended a sloping ...

It was the winter of A.D. 210, and the Roman emperor Septimius Severus lay dying. He had been in Britain since 208, overseeing a series of merciless campaigns into present-day Scotland. Roman armies ...

Mansa Musa was an African Emperor in the 14th century who ruled over the West African Empire, Mali. As an Emperor, Musa grew the Mali empire by expanding its territory all the way from the Atlantic ...

A statue of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haileselassie has been unveiled at the headquarters of the African Union on Feb. 10. The statue is the second to be erected inside the continental body’s offices in ...

A statue of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa. Hailu Wudineh Tsegaye / Shutterstock Haile Selassie ruled Ethiopia for more than four decades, ...