The Angola flag was first used on November 11, 1975. The flag is divided horizontally with a red stripe at the top and a black line at the bottom. Although the flag took its color from the ruling party, over time, the meaning and significance of the color changed to […]
African Flags
The Algeria flag consists of two vertical bars of equal size, a green bar on the left and a white bar on the right, as well as a red crescent that surrounds a red star in the center. The flag was officially adopted in 1962 after Algeria’s independence from France. […]
The Senegal flag was adopted in a ratio of 2: 3 on August 20, 1960. These colors are Pan-African colors that were first used in the flags of Ethiopia and Ghana. Symbolically, green is a symbol of Islam, progress, and hope, yellow is a symbol of natural wealth and red […]
The Cameroon flag was adopted in its current form on May 20, 1975, after Cameroon became a single country. It is a vertical color of green, red and yellow with a five-pointed star in the center. There is a wide variety of central star sizes, although there is always room […]
The Liberia flag is very similar to the United States flag, representing the founding of Liberia by a group of free-skinned blacks and blacks previously taken primarily from the United States. The Liberian flag has similar red and white stripes as well as a blue square with a white star […]
The Libya flag was originally introduced in 1951 following the establishment of the Libyan Kingdom. The flag, consisting of pan-Arab colors, was approved by Omar Faik Shanbib and by King Idris al-Senussi, who consisted of a UN delegation representing the three regions of Cyrenaica, Fezzan, and Tripolitania in the UN […]
The South Africa flag was designed in March 1994 and adopted on April 27, 1994, at the start of the 1994 South African general election, replacing the flag used since 1928. Also, the new national flag, designed by the then Herald government of then-South Africa Frederick Brownell, was chosen to […]
The current national Lesotho flag, which was adopted on the 40th anniversary of Lesotho’s independence on October 4, 2006, has three colors: blue, white, and horizontal green, with a black and Mokorotlo(Basotho hat) in the center. The design is designed to reflect a country that is at peace both inside […]
The Guinea flag was adopted in 1958 when the country gained independence from France. Since the flag is exactly the same as the Rwandan flag, Rwanda had to add the capital letters R to the middle of the yellow bar. The flag consists of three vertical colors that honor the […]
The Mauritania flag, first introduced on March 22, 1959, and recognized on April 1, 1959, is a national flag and emblem. During a referendum held on August 5, 2017, by the then President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdulaziz, two red stripes were added to the bottom and top of the […]
