Tafari Makonnen, then Regent of Ethiopia and heir to the throne, briefly contracted the Spanish Flu, but survived and would eventually become emperor in 1930 after the death of empress Zewditu.
WI Zewditu fell ill with the flu and died in 1918, thus putting Haile Selassie on the Ethiopian throne 12 years earlier than OTL? Would he have an easier time modernizing the country, considering that, although he handled most of the daily affairs and was in many ways the real ruler of Ethiopia, Zewditu blocked most of his more ambitious initiatives and even tried to depose him in 1928?
WI Zewditu fell ill with the flu and died in 1918, thus putting Haile Selassie on the Ethiopian throne 12 years earlier than OTL? Would he have an easier time modernizing the country, considering that, although he handled most of the daily affairs and was in many ways the real ruler of Ethiopia, Zewditu blocked most of his more ambitious initiatives and even tried to depose him in 1928?