Berber flag




The Berber flag is a flag that has been adopted by many Berber populations including protestors, cultural and political activists. It is currently used by Berber political and cultural activists and organizations in 10 African countries, namely: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Egypt and the Canary Islands.
The flag was inaugurated in Wadya, a town of Kabylia situated in Tizi Wezzu, a province of Algeria, by an elder Algerian Kabylian veteran, Youcef Medkour.

History

In the 1970s, the Berber Academy proposed the first Berber flag. In 1998, the World Amazigh Congress made the flag official at Tafira on Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, which were formerly inhabited by the Guanches, an ancient Berber people.
The flag is composed of blue, green, and yellow horizontal bands of the same height, and a Tifinagh letter yaz or aza.

Description

Each colour corresponds to an aspect of Tamazgha, the territory inhabited by Berbers in North Africa:
The Yaz symbolizes the Amazigh motto : "Free Man, Free Woman. Free People". The Berbers' own name for themselves. It is in red, the colour of life.
The Berber flag thus symbolizes the entire Amazigh people, living in harmony with their land, Tamazgha.