History, Knowledge & Memory

Haile Selassie, Speech to the UN. October 6 1963

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wszwI1E24eM[/embedyt] Haile Selassie addresses the United Nations General Assembly during the Eighteenth Session on October 4th, 1963 calling for world peace. Spoken in Ethiopia’s official Amharic, the recording is accompanied by an English translation.
A portion of the address was adopted by Bob Marley as lyrics to the song “War”, first released on the 1976 Island Records album, Rastaman Vibration.

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