Africa
What a beautiful name that continent has. Like Asia, India, and America, it's Latin. It invokes in my mind a 2 dimensional outline of the continent's borders, the interior colored by three stripes of green, gold, and red, the colors of Ethiopia's flag, adopted by Pan Africanists as their symbol. (for pictures of the African flags utilizing these beautiful colors, click here ) Last summer I did South Asia. This summer, I do East Africa. Ethiopia. The cradle of humanity. The rallying point for Pan-Africanism. And the spiritual home of Rastafarianism. Their vaunted Zion, Jamaica being Babylon, where the Rastafarians felt enslaved. Africa. Ethiopian flag (I can't find a picture of this three-striped Africa map I've seen before) This also means the blog will be returning.