haile selassie is immortalised, he is iconic.terlace it here, and you do this... yeah, yeah. it goes back to unity. yeah, yeah, of course. so, we are heading into north addis. we are going to see an art gallery, an art gallery for blind and visually impaired people. i'm assuming some kind of tactile art exhibition. different textures to make a picture or pictures. that's what i'm assuming. we'll find out when we get there. thank you. the entrance? hi, tony. welcome. hi. welcome to my studio. thank you, i'm really looking forward to it. let me show you one of the art pieces. wow. so, we're touching a piece of art. these are people, who are laughing. this is their mouths. 0k. this is their nose. this is their eyes. these are like buttons, are they? yes. so it is a face. you can see their hands, they are screaming, happy, expressing themselves. do you like it? it's really good, it's really interesting. it really gives a blind person a better understanding of expression of people. it's amazing. it's really inspiring. so many times yo

how important is haile selassie to ethiopian people.for others he was a villain. because whenever you occupy a throne, those other things, the two balls you juggle. he tried to modernise the country. so he did work a lot on education, but was one of his main interests. my grandfather was a big fan of him. he said, he used to come to their school, randomly, just to check on what the students were being fed. every time he would come, he would bring them grapes, apples, oranges. and how was he viewed by young ethiopian people today? haile selassie is immortalised, he is iconic. if you bring your hand, and interla ce iconic. if you bring your hand, and interlace it here, and you do this... yeah, yeah. it goes back to unity. yeah, yeah, of course. so, we are heading into north addis. we are going to see an art gallery, an art gallery for blind and visually impaired people. i am assuming some kind of tactile art exhibition. different textures to make a picture or pictures. but what i'm assuming. we will find out when we get there. thank you.

from some of the research i had done about haile selassie and ethiopia and hearing about the rastafarian culture, it's this idea that haile selassie had designated a bit of land, so that former african slaves, descendants, could come back to africa. that sounded interesting so i thought i would head to a town called shashamane, where it's a very rastafarian culture. lots of people out, this feels very lively, very rural, traditional. i like it. hello, salaam! the driver and i are now looking for my accommodation, a rastafarian—run lodge. alex, i am alex. hello. welcome! come in. wow, you're tall. wow, you're small. like a lot of western european tourists who think a rastafarian culture, lifestyle, i have my sort of stereotypical idea of dreadlocks and just laying about listening to reggae all day. didn't realise it was probably not all like that. but i still had some. and when i got there, i met alex and his wife, and very quickly they changed that whole perception that i had. welcome to our house, of ancient ethiopian people. wow. i became a rasta man as a teenager, you know, when i saw