The monarchy, known as the Solomonic dynasty, has been a prominent national symbol. The imperial flag consists of horizontal stripes of green, gold, and red with a lion in the foreground holding a staff. On the head of the staff is an Ethiopian Orthodox cross with the imperial flag waving from it. The lion is the Lion of Judah, one of the many imperial titles signifying descent from King Solomon. The cross symbolizes the strength and reliance of the monarchy on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the dominant religion for the last sixteen hundred years.
My landlord and I know that I am a TV personality. I am being greeted differently than usual. Few of us knew that my friend was a country-shaking author at the time. On that tiring afternoon, when our lady entered, the door was closed like an old train rolling on the stove. He forgot to open the house that he rented to us, who loves coffee. He beseechedly sought out our landlord, following the steam of the cheese that entered his masters’ house. Mazer (our farmer) saw us. Unusually, he bowed and raised his hand. We entered our house.
We lay in different directions on the same mattress. “If they don’t call us Mazer, we’ll leave,” we laughed. After many slow minutes and whistling accompanied by the aroma of beech coffee, we heard our farmer’s footsteps coming to our room. In order not to look like we were waiting for them to come, we focused on the book and the wise man’s favorite quote,
Sovereignty and freedom are characteristics and thus symbols of Ethiopia both internally and externally. Many African nation-states, such as Ghana, Benin, Senegal, Cameroon, and the Congo adopted Ethiopia’s colors for their flags when they gained independence from colonial rule.
