Ethiopian World Federation's Page

Ethiopian World Federation, Incorporated (or, in Amharic የኢትዮጵያ፡ዓለም፡ፌዴሬሽን፡፡) [1], was originally a not-for-profit membership organization, incorporated in the State of New York, United States of America [2]. Later it was also registered by the Internal Revenue Services as a 501 (C) 4 (civic- league, social welfare) thus making the organization and her legal subsidiary locals, tax exempt. This organization originally came into being on August 25, 1937 in New York City, through the efforts of Afr… Continue

==Rastafari and Shashamane== In 1948 Emperor [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia|Haile Selassie I]] donated {{convert|500|acre|km2}} of his private land to allow African-American EWF officers, members and other settlers from [[Jamaica]] including other parts of the [[Caribbean]] to return to their ancestral homeland in [[Africa]], through auspices of the [[Ethiopian World Federation]] (EWF) founded in 1937 by the Emperor's special emmissary to Black America, [[Dr. Melaku E. Bayen]][http://tadias.word… Continue