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This flag is listed under number 8 at the chart Flags of
Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as:
«Batwa (Twa, “Pygmies”) - Central Africa.»:
Vertical blue-white-green with a red disc over the half of white
and green stripes. Twa tribes are scattered over
Democratic Congo,
Centrafrican Republic,
Burundi and
Rwanda, and have no common political
organization, so the flag is dubious. Nice original design,
anyway.
Ivan Sache, 12 Sep 1999
There is an interesting aspect to the name Twa (plural BaTwa) — it
appears to be a Bantu root-word, since it is also found in the Bantu
languages of South Africa. However, in this country it does not refer to
Pygmies, but to Bushmen (in Sotho the term for Bushman is Twa, plural
Batwa. In Zulu and Xhosa the word is also twa, plural
abatwa); the root word would appear to mean "aboriginal".
Mike Oettle, 15 Mar 2007
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