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The flag of the Central African Republic (French: Drapeau de la République centrafricaine; Sango: Bendêre tî Bêafrîka) was officially adopted in 1958.It has been retained since that time with the same design, four horizontal stripes of blue, white, green and yellow, and a single vertical band of red, with a yellow five-pointed star in the upper left corner.
The Sango people (or Basango, Bosango, Sangho, Sangos) are an ethnic group living on the banks of the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic. They speak a Northern Ngbandi -based creole language called Sango , which belongs to the Ubangian branch of the Niger-Congo family.
Sango (also spelled Sangho) is a major language spoken in Central Africa, especially the Central African Republic, southern Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an official language in the Central African Republic, [ 4 ] where it is used as a lingua franca across the country and had 450,000 native speakers in 1988.
Having been a French colony under the name Ubangi-Shari, [b] French is the official language, with Sango, a Ngbandi-based creole language, as the national and co-official language. [ 10 ] The Central African Republic mainly consists of Sudano-Guinean savanna , but the country also includes a Sahelo - Sudanian zone in the north and an equatorial ...
Bangui (French pronunciation:; or Bangui in Sango, formerly written Bangui in English) is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic.It was established as a French outpost in 1889 and named after its location on the northern bank of the Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the Ubangi itself was named from the Bobangi word for the "rapids" located beside the settlement, [2] which ...
Sango, a 1997 Nigerian film; Sango Fighter, a video game series; Sango (musician), an electronic musician and DJ from Seattle, Washington; Sango , a character in the manga and anime Inuyasha; Sango , one of the Himeyuri twins in the game ToHeart2; Sango Suzumura, a.k.a Cure Coral, a character in the anime series Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure
ZO KWE ZO, the motto in Sango, means "A man is a man" or "All people are people". The elephant and the baobab tree represent nature and the backbone of the country. The gold star on a map of Africa symbolizes the position of the Central African Republic.
The Sango Festival celebrations can be traced back to 1,000 years ago following the departure of Sango, a popular Yoruba òrìṣà who is widely regarded as the founding father of the Oyo people [3] Sango was a notable strong ruler and magician who became king of the Oyo Empire after succeeding his elder brother who was perceived to be a "weak ...