Flag of Ghana
Inception | 1957 ![]() |
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Dey apply to jurisdiction | Ghana ![]() |
Genre | horizontal triband, Pan-African flag ![]() |
Aspect ratio (W:H) | 3:2 ![]() |
Color | red, gold, green, black ![]() |
Depicts | field, five-pointed star ![]() |
Designed by | Theodosia Okoh ![]() |
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date | 1964 ![]() |
Unicode character | 🇬🇭 ![]() |
The flag of Ghana was officially adopted in March of the year 1957. The colors of the Ghana flag are red, yellow, green and black, which is thus similar to many African countries that adopted these colors after gaining their independence. The red color in the flag symbolizes the blood of sacrifice which is from our fore fathers for independence, and the yellow color symbolizes mineral deposits The green color represents the forestry and the vegetation of Ghana, and the black star in the flag symbolizes a free African continent which also deepest the color of Africans[1].
History[edit | edit source]
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Ghana flag
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Flag of Ghana (1964–1966)
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Presidential Standard of Ghana
Ghanaian government flag, adopted in 1957, until 1962. Like, when the country was formed into the Union of African Nations, the Union flag was similar to the flag of Bolivia, but with two black stars, representing the countries. In May 1959, a third star was added. Locating how the stars were arranged, it is possible that they were arranged in a triangle, although a three-in-one formation in a line is more likely.
In 1962, before the dissolution of the Federation the following year, Ghana adopted a variant of the 1957 tricolor with white in place of yellow, after the colors of Kwame Nkrumah's ruling party People's Convention and modeled on the flag of Hungary. The original 1957 flag was reintroduced in 1966 after Nkrumah's overthrow at the National Liberation Council[2].