AFRICA FEST 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Warner Park
Madison, Wisconsin
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
I agree in toto!
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From: Emilie Songolo <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:58:04
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Subject: Re: Malawians warned against possessing old national flag
AFRICA FEST 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Warner Park
Madison, Wisconsin
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Good idea Tonton Aggo.
Would it possible to also have a flag display on the Association's web site? This would serve as a permanent display space in case one could not be at the festival.
Also, It would help the association if members notified the Board of flag changes for their country or any African country for that matter (with an image), as soon as a change is implemented.
Best regards,
--Emilie
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> I concur fully and I think we should be flying the flags more often (rather than once every five years) so we catch all these misrepresentations. We used to display them each year in Monona Terrace at each festival but not since we switched to the park in 2006. Seeking to resurrect the tradition this year with the mobile outdoor stage.
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> I commented at the gala on Saturday that AAM displays old flags of certain countries, including DR Congo and Rwanda. DR Congo's "new" flag is 4 years old, and it is a reprise of one of the pre-Mobutu era flags, as was the one that preceded it. Rwanda's new flag is even older, having been adopted in 2001, but AAM displays the old one with the big R in the middle.
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> > Looks like we'll have to buy a new Malawi flag right away. I learn one of the Congos has new flag too.
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> > > "New Prisons: The new Mzimba Prison has conditions high above those of many other Malawian prisons, with beds and comfortable mattresses. Prisoners get food three times a day and have well-ventilated cells. The facility also provides services and activities for prisoners, such as teaching them skills so they go back into society as law-abiding citizens. The Malawi Prison Service plans to open additional prisons in Rumphi Mchinji and Salima."
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> > The Malawi government has warned citizens who still possess the old national flag that they risk arrest and prosecution.
> > Newly-appointed Information Minister Symon Vuwa Kaunda, told a press conference it was against the law to continue flying the old flag.
> > The new flag was launched last Saturday by President Bingu wa Mutharika after the national assembly passed the amended 'Flags, Emblem and Names Act'.
> > The new flag, with red at the top, black in the middle and green at the bottom complete with a full sun in the middle, replaces the old one (black, red and green with a rising sun super-imposed on the top black colour).
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> > Launching the new flag in the capital, Lilongwe, amid resistance from a cross section of individuals and interest groups, President Mutharika argued that Malawi had developed tremendously since independence from British colonialists in 1964.
> > He said it did not make sense to still describe Malawi as 'a nation at dawn' 46 years after independence.
> > But opponents described the reasons behind the change as unconvincing and unrealistic and the cost of changing the flag as unnecessary.
> > 'We don't agree with the proposed changes,' read a statement by a group of Catholic priests. 'Do we have to change everything that bears the old flag? We could have better usage for that money considering that this year some parts of Malawi w ill
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> > 'The old flag has lots of history and meaning,' said Nancy Tembo, spokesperson for the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). 'We shouldn't tamper with historical landmarks just to suit some ego.'
> > PANA reports that on Friday, six days after the president inaugurated the new flag, most government offices, including police offices, are still flying the old flag.
> > 'We haven't been told officially and we don't have the new flag,' said an officer-in-charge of a police post in Blantyre. 'We have, by law, to fly a flag every morning and since we only have the old flag we have
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