''Woizero'' Yeshimebet Ali was the wife of

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and mother of Emperor

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of Ethiopia. She was the daughter of Dejazmatch Ali Gonshur, who was an Oromo from

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and a former trader from

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.Herbert S. Lewis, ''A Galla Monarchy: Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 1965), p. 40 Yeshimebet died during her son's infancy. Her mother and her sister ''Woizero'' Mammit helped care for her young son as he grew to adulthood. She had eight miscarriages before giving birth to Haile Selassie.

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