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Pan African Flag

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Pan African Flag

Red, black and green: the Pan-African flag

The Pan-African flag has three horizontal stripes of equal height, red, black and green. It is known by many names: the Pan-African flag, the African-American flag, the Black Liberation flag, and for a long time also the «Marcus Garvey flag», after the man who wanted it. It is a flag born in 1920 and still in full use today.

Marcus Garvey and the UNIA

Marcus Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887. In 1914, in Jamaica, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the UNIA, an association for the advancement of people of African descent. In 1916 he moved to the United States, and from Harlem, in New York, his association opened branches in many cities.

The convention of 1920

In August 1920 the UNIA delegates met for a whole month at Liberty Hall in New York. There they approved the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, and Article 39 says simply: «That the colors, Red, Black and Green, be the colors of the Negro race». The flag was born from those three colours.

The meaning of the colours

According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian museum devoted to African American history, Garvey gave each colour a meaning: red for the blood of people of African descent, black for their identity, green for the lush lands of Africa.

A flag for the whole diaspora

The flag does not belong to a state but to a people scattered across many countries, and it stands for the whole African diaspora, wherever they were born. Over time it has also inspired artists: David Hammons, for example, took up its colours for his «African-American Flag». Today it flies at Juneteenth parades and at many community celebrations.

Who chooses it

For anyone with African or Afro-Caribbean roots, for communities and associations of the African diaspora, for Black History Month and Juneteenth, for a reggae, afro or jazz music festival, for a school, a library or a museum, for a themed venue or restaurant, for collectors. We sew it to order, in the size and fabric you choose above, and you see the delivery date before you pay.

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