Monthly Archives: January 1997

Obituary: Crown Prince AsfaWossen HaileSelassie

By Richard Greenfield

The death of Asfa Wossen, Crown Prince of Ethiopia since 1930, almost certainly marks the final demise of thousands of years of Ethiopian monarchic tradition.

He was born in 1916 in the ancient Adare walled city of …

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