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Text Box: Harlem’s Afrikan people lined up in the streets to be deployed to help fight in our Afrikan sovereign century’s liberation. In 1937 Harlemites Mr. Cyril M Philp, secretary of the United Aid, Reverend William Lloyd Imes, Pastor of the prestigious St. James Presbyterian Church, and Philip M. Savory of the Victory Insurance Company and co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News, went in delegation to His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Sellassie in Bath to discuss ways of Afrikan People in the West could centralize and organize to rally around Ethiopia. Seeing the dedication and love for the country, he sent is personal physician Dr. Malaku E. Bayen as his special emissary. From this gathering collective of Afrikans in the West and from the Continent was assured, founding groups and organizations like that of The Ethiopian World Federation. Seeing the fierce will of Afrikans in the West the Emperor of Ethiopia also give land in the Shashamne area of some 500 hectares for the country's development. Also those among us like Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, “ The Black Eagle”, was an Afrikan born in the West who was a promoter of aviation and was the first person of “color, (Afrikan)”, to receive a pilot's license in the United States. He was a supporter of Marcus Garvey and in 1922 flew his plane over parades in support of Garvey. He also attempted to fly the Tran Atlantic rout from the U.S. to Afrika and in 1930 he few to Ethiopia impressing Emperor Haile Selassie who sealed him with Abyssinian citizenship and made him a colonel in the Ethiopian Air Force and Military Governor of Ethiopia in 1939. These are just a small portion of the abundant well served missions and people willing and able to assist Ethiopia, our land of creation and where God loves to be. One recognizable symbol of unity in Ethiopia was found in the country’s music. With a multitude of peoples, languages and culture the whole country was represented on television showcasing nearly hourly, the uniqueness of Ethiopian dance, which all carry a rhythmic, synchronized and very much highly spiritual soulful bounce expressing their inner connection to each other and the oneness of the soul. Music in Ethiopia showed to be the connector forces that needs to be shared with other Afrikan peoples especially young youth here in America, who by not even knowing have dances similar to that of Ethiopia. Young youth here are eager to learn the diversity of Afrikan dance and efforts are encouraged to create this cultural link. Not all sights in the country were pretty, for knowing “Quine” an ancient Ethiopic poetry developed by Saint Yard, you will know of the, “Wax and the Gold”, for the effects of the Ethio-Italian war curved very noticeable