An interesting holiday jumps out in July: Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892. His backstory: In the 1930s, Marcus Garvey led the Universal Negro Improvement Association. One day, he told ...
At Lang'ata Cemetery on Langata Road is buried a freedom fighter and great Pan-Africanist by the name Ras Makonnen. He was born Nathaniel Thomas Griffiths in the Caribbean state of Guyana but changed ...