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Africa currently does not have an official flag that represents the continent and its people. But there are pan-African symbols and proposed flags.

African Union[]

The African Union is a continental union, of which all African sovereign states and the SADR are a member. Its current flag has a green background representing hope, charged with a map of Africa surrounded by 55 stars representing the member states.

Pan-African colours[]

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

  • Green, yellow and red, the colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology due to the country's history of having avoided being taken over by a colonial power. Numerous African countries have 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, first introduced by Marcus Garvey in 1920, have also come to represent Pan-Africanism, and are shown on the Pan-African flag. These colours have also been incorporated on national flags, and they have sometimes been used to represent black nationalism rather than Pan-Africanism.

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