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Zambia

by mark sensen 27-OCT-1995

Flag of Zambia
Northern Rhodesia

See also:

Zimbabwe for history of flags of Rhodesia

Flag of Zambia

It was adopted on 24-OCT-1964

Whitney Smith merely says "The Zambian flag is exceptional in having its charges concentrated in its fly half." The red stands for the struggle for freedom, the black for the Zambian people, and the orange for natural resources and mineral wealth. The eagle is representative of the people's ability to rise above the nation's problems.

The arms consist of a shield with black and white wavy lines running vertically -- a representation of Victoria Falls.

dipesh navsaria 08-MAR-1996

Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) had its own coat of arms. It was separated in 1910 from the rest of Rhodesia. I don't know when the arms were adopted. Anyway, the scant visual evidence I have suggests that Northern Rhodesia, like Southern Rhodesia, just used its shield on the blue ensign, despite being a 'pure' colony without the self governing status of S. Rhodesia.

stuart notholt 11-FEB-1996

Stuart asks when the coat of arms of Northern Rhodesia was adopted. I don't know if it is definitive, but the Oct. 1917 National Geographic depicts the badge of RHODESIA as a blue field, with a golden lion grasping an elphant's tusk in it's right paw and the letters B.S.A.C (for Cecil Rhodes' British South African Company)

william grimes-wyatt 11-FEB-1996