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Miami Broward One Carnival Why I loved it!
Haile Salassie's Grandson, Joel Makonnen marries Grandaughter of Lord Mayor of Guyana, Ariana Austin in a lavish Ethiopian Orthodox Christian wedding.
By Kadeem Roberts This year, I attended Miami carnival at the fairgrounds at Florida International University for the first time. Carnival is an event that used to be held as the beginning of lent. In America, it is used to meet people who share the same culture and music as you, and enjoy some of the treats we left at home in the Caribbean. I usually hate these events, but I went to represent my parents because, I know that in business you must do a lot of networking - mixing and talking to strangers, you have to sell your business to the people you talk to in order to have people invest and pay attention. At Carnival, I worked at my parent’s booth, Caribbean American Passport speaking to people that walked by. Continued on Page 14
The groom, Mr. Makonnen, was born in Rome, his parents, Prince David Makonnen and Princess Adey Imru Makonnen, had been forced into exile after a communist coup in Ethiopia, and he grew up in Switzerland and France. Mr Makonnen, 35, is related to Haile Selassie, through the emperor's second
son, Prince Mankonnen. The royal family traces its roots back to the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Haile Selassie was the 225th emperor of Ethiopia and he ruled the east African country for four decades until he was overthrown in 1974. He died in 1975 under mysterious circumstances. Continued on Page 8