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image by Ivan Sache, 12 Sep 1999
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,
Central African Republic,
Burundi and
Rwanda, and have no common political
organization. Nice original design,
anyway.
Ivan Sache, 12 Sep 1999
I have been informed that this flag continues to be used to represent them
and they remain a member of UNPO. There is a one-page summary of the Batwa
People on UNPO's website at;
https://unpo.org/members/7861. There is also a link to an UNPO member
profile PDF, which includes their flag of vertical blue, white & green stripes,
with a red disc over lapping parts of the white & green stripes, at
https://unpo.org/downloads/2434.pdf
Ralph Bartlett, 30 October
2021
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