Doppelgangers – Pan-African I

Red, yellow, and green are known as the pan-African colors. They come from the flag of Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to largely keep its independence during the colonial era. Given that, these colors became very popular when the many former European colonies started gaining their independence after World War II. A little too popular, if you ask me.


Guinea

Guinea was a former French colony, and elected to simply swap the colors of the tricolore with the pan-African ones. Easy.


Mali 

Okay. I see Mali’s simply taken Guinea’s flag and flipped it around. Creative!


Senegal

Ooh, look – this one has a little star!


Cameroon

And now for something completely different ... Yup, we’ve got a star, plus we switched the colors all around. Yeah baby!



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