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Africa

Ghana

Ratio: 2:3 Adopted: March 6, 1957 Usage: National

Ghana was the first Red recalls the
country to use the blood shed by
pan-African colors freedom fighters
of red, yellow,
green, and black Yellow represents
mineral wealth

Green is symbolic
of the country’s The star of
rich forests
African freedom

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name from that of an historic African empire.
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first the inspiration for numerous other
leader after independence, was the African flags during the period of
first to introduce the politically decolonization.
symbolic pan-African colors—red, Ghana followed the flag patterns
yellow, green, and black—into established in the United Kingdom,
African flags. They were ultimately and so has a both a red ensign for use
derived from the colors of Ethiopia, on civil vessels and a white ensign for
dating back to the 19th century and naval vessels. This use of several flags
have now become associated with sets it apart from other West African
the Rastafarian movement in the states, which normally have only one
West Indies. The flag also became all-purpose flag.

GHANAIAN RED ENSIGN
The national flag is The field is in the style of
placed in the canton the British Red Ensign

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