As someone from the region Haile is one of the worst leaders of Ethiopia, even the Omnicidal DERG was better on some points than him. He was an insane racist sl

As someone from the region Haile is one of the worst leaders of Ethiopia, even the Omnicidal DERG was better on some points than him. He was an insane racist slaveowner usurper who was put in power by British arms, fed his dogs steak while millions starved, broke every promise he made etc. He’s so toxic in modern Ethiopia both Amhara and Oromo nationalists say that he’s from the other ethnicity, he’s mostly worshipped by Caribbean and west Africans who don’t know anything about Ethiopia or Abyssinia. Also that book is wonderful. The Shadow of the Sun is an amazing book about his travels in Africa in the 90’s.