Flag of Senegal

The flag of Senegal was officially launched on 20 August 1960.

Importance

Red recalls the struggle for independence, represents the shed blood of the colonial era and called socialism. Yellow stands for flowering landscapes and is considered a sign of wealth accruing from the joint work. Green expresses the hope for a good future and progress, and also stands for the three largest religious groups in the country ( Muslims, Christians, animists ).

History

The national flag dates from a time when Senegal and French Sudan in early 1959 formed the so-called Mali Federation. The yellow stripes at the time was a stylized black human figure, the Kanaga icon. As Senegal got out of this Federation, and Republic, was replaced by a green human freedom star. Mali still bears as its national flag the tricolor without symbols in the yellow strip. The striped flag is obviously inspired by the French tricolor and suppressed by the Pan-African colors of the ties with Ghana and Guinea, whose flags arrange the colors of the tricolor different. However, the colors of the flag occurred already in Senegalese party flags.

About 2:3? Flag of Mali Federation 1959-1960