Imagine the disgust felt by black nationalist Marcus Garvey when he first heard the 1900 song mocking the African diaspora and its lack of a flag. Not only was there a racist song deriding the ...
A country in the North African region, Libya changed its flag in 2011 following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Libya reverted to the flag it used from 1951 to 1969, which consists of red, black, and ...
This flag is designed with six bold colours. While many African flags are visually striking, one that stands out as particularly symbolic and captivating is the flag of South Africa. The South African ...
Bamako, early 2022. The French ambassador has just been declared persona non grata. Soldiers from Operation Barkhane are packing up. In the streets of the Malian capital, protest follows protest, ...
The debate regarding the prominence of the Confederate flag added an international element when photos of Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people last week in the Charleston church massacre, ...
Symbols matter. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t be in the midst of such acrimonious debate about the Confederate flag, 150 years after the end of the Civil War. Most of its defenders assert — ...
In “Pa’lante,” artist Heather Raquel Phillips uses a series of flags to recall Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African movement. Heather Raquel Phillips' flags, celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Marcus ...