Crane is beautiful enough
Sep 27, 2010
EDITOR: I thank F. F. Walugembe for his letter yesterday in which he urges Ugandans to pay attention to the details of our national flag.
EDITOR: I thank F. F. Walugembe for his letter yesterday in which he urges Ugandans to pay attention to the details of our national flag.
Yes, although it has mainly three colours, they are arranged in six strips. I would also like to add that the flag's combination of six strips of black, yellow and red are arranged horizontally and should be to distinguished from the one of Belgium, which too has the same black, yellow and red combination but are arranged vertically.
It boggles my mind when and why we started painting the crown of the crested crane in the national flag's colours! Our national bird is beautiful enough the way God created it and already has natural spots of the national colours on different parts of its head.
I wish to urge the Government, through the offices responsible, to stop the habit of changing the crane's beautiful natural image on the national flag and elsewhere.
Martin Makara
Kampala
Yes, although it has mainly three colours, they are arranged in six strips. I would also like to add that the flag's combination of six strips of black, yellow and red are arranged horizontally and should be to distinguished from the one of Belgium, which too has the same black, yellow and red combination but are arranged vertically.
It boggles my mind when and why we started painting the crown of the crested crane in the national flag's colours! Our national bird is beautiful enough the way God created it and already has natural spots of the national colours on different parts of its head.
I wish to urge the Government, through the offices responsible, to stop the habit of changing the crane's beautiful natural image on the national flag and elsewhere.
Martin Makara
Kampala