As we welcome Ethiopia's first female President Sahle Zewde we must also remember her historical predecessor. Empress Zewditu was the first female head of an internationally recognized state and ...

View full size Steve Delamarter/EMIP Two seals suggest that this copy of the four Gospels, hand-written in Ge'ez, belonged to Queen Zewditu of Ethiopia.

Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining ...

Ethiopia has a history of women in positions of power that predates the modern era: From 1916 to 1930, Empress Zewditu ruled the country.

As we welcome Ethiopia's first female President Sahle Zewde we must also remember her historical predecessor. Empress Zewditu was the first female head of an internationally recognized state and ...