Reuters.uk
When he saw a stage being built in the Ethiopian capital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bob Marley's birthday, 53-year-old Belay Kidane began to weep.
The Ethiopian shed tears not for the Jamaican reggae star, who died of cancer in 1981, but for late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, considered a living God by many of Marley's fellow Rastafarians and hailed in his songs.
"I cried when I remembered Haile Selassie's kindness, his honesty, he was a good father and we lost him," said Belay, describing how as a schoolboy he was once handed a chocolate cake by the emperor who was toppled in 1974.
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