Menen asfaw biography of barack obama
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Menen Asfaw
Empress of Ethiopia from to
Menen Asfaw (baptismal name: Walatta Giyorgis; 25 March – 15 February )[3] was Empress of Ethiopia as the wife of Emperor Haile Selassie.
Family
Menen Asfaw was born in Ambassel, located in Wollo Province of Ethiopian Empire on 25 March She was the daughter of Asfaw, Jantirar of Ambassel and Woizero Sehin Michael. Her mother was the daughter of the King Mikael of Wollo and her half-uncle was Lij Iyasu.[4]
According to both published and unpublished reports, the then Woizero Menen Asfaw was first given in marriage by her family to the prominent Wollo nobleman, Dejazmach Ali Mohammed of Cherecha at a very young age, as was the prevailing custom.
They had two children, a daughter, Woizero Belaynesh Ali, and a son, Jantirar Asfaw Ali.[5] This first marriage ended in divorce, and her natal family then arranged for Woizero Menen to marry Dejazmach Amede Ali Aba-Deyas, another very prominent nobleman of Wo