The ancient Ethiopian/African flag has a lion on it. The lion represents Jesus Christ, according to the Ethiopian Orthodox Towahdo Church. Many African and South American flags’ are inspired by the above Ethiopian flag. The colors, green, yellow, and red became known as the Pan-African colors, because Ethiopia was able to defeat colonialism.
Countries that have the Pan-African colors on their flags include Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The following Flag is one example from Zimbabwe.
The inclusion of the Pan-African colors in many countries’ flag is one of the testaments to the unbreakable bondage that still exist amongst Africans internationally. What do you feel about the Pan-African collors?
Peace on Africa.
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