Angola is officially called the Republic of Angola. In the
19th century, they started slowly and hesitantly to set up inside. Angola as a
Portuguese colony encompassing the present territory was not established until
the late 19th century, and "effective occupation", as required by the
Berlin Conference was reached in the 1920s after the Mbunda resistance and
removal of their king Mwene Mbandu I Lyondthzi Kapova. Independence from Kapova
was accomplished in 1975, after a protracted liberation war. After
independence, Angola was the faced an intense civil war from 1975 to 2002,
in spite of the civil war fields such as Baixa Cassanje continue a line of kings
that included the former king and Kambamba Kulaxingo current king Dianhenga
Hoods Mjinji Kulaxingo.
The national flag of Angola came into use at independence 11th November 1975 is divided horizontally into an upper half is red and the black
lower half, and has a half-cogwheel yellow cross with a machete and crowned
with a star.
History of the
National Flag of Angola:
As in other African countries, this flag is a modification
of the flag of the ruling party. The guerrilla movement and later, the Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), used the same design with a gold
star in the center. Red was for socialism and black was for Africa. The star in
the National Flag of Angola was modeled after the red star of the Soviet Union.
Later, the explanation was made less specific party: Red is
for the blood shed by Angolans during their independence struggles, while black
is for the continent of Africa. The symbol is in the middle of a gear and
through machete with a gold star. It was adopted at a time when Angola had a
Marxist government, and thus was meant to evoke the image of the hammer and
sickle found on the flag of the former Soviet Union, a common symbol of
communism. The National flag of Angola is the most recently described and
explained in section 162 of the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Angola.
2003 proposal of
National Flag of Angola:
In 2003, a new flag, more "optimistic" was
proposed by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament of the National
Assembly, but was not adopted. The design of the sun in the middle is intended
to be reminiscent of the cave paintings found in Tchitundo-Hulu cave. The
National flag of Angola has maintained the same proportions flag 2: 3.
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| Proposed National Flag of the Portuguese overseas province of Angola in 1967 |
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| National Flag of the former movement and now governing party MPLA |
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| National Flag of UNITA, the movement against the MPLA government from 1975 to 2002 |
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| Proposed National Flag of Angola in 1996 |
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| Proposed National Flag of Angola in 2003 |
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| National Flag of Angola from 2003 till date |
