Mozambique Education and History
National symbols The national flag was adopted in 1983. It is horizontally striped in green, black and yellow, narrow white stripes separate the colored stripes from one another. From the leech there is a red triangle over the stripe; in the middle of it is an open book on a yellow five-pointed star, on which the pick and the rifle cross. The constitution describes the meaning of the colors: green symbolizes the fertile soil, black the continent and its population,…