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The flag of Somaliland consists of a horizontal tricolour of green, white, and red, with the black star of Africa located in the centre. On the green stripe, there is the Shahada in white Thuluth script , the flag's colours are taken from the flag of the Somali National Movement .
The national flag of Senegal (drapeau national du Sénégal) is a tricolour consisting of three vertical green, yellow and red bands charged with a five-pointed green star at the centre. [1] Adopted in 1960 to replace the flag of the Mali Federation , it has been the flag of the Republic of Senegal since the country gained independence that year.
The black star of the Ghanaian national flag is a symbol for the emancipation of Africa and unity against colonialism. [24] [25] The black star was adopted from the flag of the Black Star Line, a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey which operated from 1919 to 1922. [26] It became also known as the Black Star of Africa.
The flag of Cameroon on a flagpole. The national flag of Cameroon (drapeau national du Cameroun) was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolour of green, red and yellow pales, with a yellow five-pointed star in its center. [1]
The white star represents the first independent republic in Africa, above the blue square representing the African continent. The Liberian flag is modeled after and resembles the United States flag because Liberia was founded, colonized, established, and controlled by free people of color and formerly enslaved Black people from the United ...
Pages in category "Flags of Africa" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Zimbabwe Bird depicted on the flag is rendered in the same format as it appeared on the arms of 1924 and as it appeared on the Rhodesian flag of 1968 and the Zimbabwe Rhodesian flag of 1979. The red star on which the bird is placed is a regular star. However, a different, rather flattened version of the bird, sometimes displayed on an ...
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