What Are The 3 Colors Associated With African Culture?

Red, aureate, green and black

The traditional flag of Ethiopia, the colours of which have been adopted by numerous Pan-African groups.

Unofficial pan-African or UNIA flag

Pan-African colours is a term that may refer to ii different sets of colours:

Red, yellow, and green, the colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come up to represent the Pan-Africanist ideology. Numerous African countries take adopted the colours into their national flags, and they are similarly used as a symbol by many Pan-African organisations and the Rastafari movement.

Red, black, and green, outset introduced past Marcus Garvey in 1920, have also come to correspond Pan-Africanism, and are shown on the Pan-African flag. These colours have too been incorporated on national flags, and they have sometimes been used to represent black nationalism rather than Pan-Africanism.^[1]

The Ethiopian colours [edit]

Green, gilded and crimson are at present found on the national flags of many African nations. The colour combination was borrowed from the flag of Federal democratic republic of ethiopia.^[2] The Ethiopian flag has influenced the flags of many Pan-African organizations and polities. Except for relative cursory periods of influence and occupation by the Kingdom of Italian republic, Ethiopia remained outside European command during the colonial era by defeating the Italian army at the battle of Adwa, Ethiopia, in 1896, ending the Italian protectorate. As a result, the country drew the admiration of many newly independent states in Africa. The adoption of the Ethiopian national colours by many Pan-African entities is a upshot of this. The first African state to adopt a gilded, red and green flag upon independence was Ghana in 1957, designed past Theodosia Okoh.^[3] ^[four]

The UNIA colours [edit]

The Universal Negro Comeback Association and African Communities League (UNIA) founded by Marcus Garvey has a constitution that defines reddish, black, and green every bit the Pan-African colours: "red representing the noble blood that unites all people of African beginnings, the colour black for the people, green for the rich country of Africa."^{[ citation needed ]} The UNIA flag was designated the official colours of Black Africans past the UNIA at its convention in Madison Foursquare Garden on August thirteen, 1920, in New York City, United States.

Current land flags with the Pan-African symbolism [edit]

The following are countries and territories that use one or both sets of Pan-African colours in their official flags:

Non-national flags [edit]

Spousal relationship of African States (1961–1962)

Former flags with pan-African colours [edit]

Flag of Federal democratic republic of ethiopia (1987–1991)
Flag of Tanganyika (1961–1964)
Flag of Senegal (1958–1959)

Non Pan-African flags with Pan-African colours [edit]

Although the following flags contain a Pan-African colour scheme, they were not officially designed to symbolise Pan-Africanism. The designs may or may not be influenced by Pan-African colours.

Rastafari colours also originate from the Ethiopian flag, but though Rastafari thought harbours Pan-African sympathies, its apply of the Ethiopian flag is historically rooted in the veneration of sometime Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.

Meet also [edit]

Flag of Lithuania
Malay tricolour
Nordic Cross Flag
Pan-African flag
Pan-Arab colours
Pan-Slavic colours
Tricolour
U.s.a. of Africa

References [edit]

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^ Mrs. Theodosia Salome Okoh Profile at GhanaWeb.
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