[1][2] The flag was inaugurated in Wadya, a town of Kabylia situated in Tizi Ouzou, a province of Algeria, by an elder Algerian Kabylian veteran, Youcef Medkour.

[3] The flag is composed of blue, green, and yellow horizontal bands of the same height, and a Tifinagh letter yaz or aza.

[1][2] Each colour corresponds to an aspect of Tamazgha, the territory inhabited by the Berbers in North Africa:[2] The letter z represents the word Amazigh, the root of which it is taken from.

[1] Mohand Arav Bessaoud, Algerian activist and founder of Berber Academy, designed the flag in 1970.

[4][2] It was used in demonstrations in the 1980s, and in 1997, the World Amazigh Congress at Tafira in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands made the flag official.