Senegal Nylon Flag

About Our Senegal Nylon Flag

Senegal retained the green-yellow-red flag but substituted a green star for the kanaga. Green is seen as a symbol of hope and of the country’s major religions, while yellow is for natural riches and the wealth derived from labour. Red recalls the independence struggle, life, and socialism. Those three pan-African colours had been used by individual political parties in Senegal in the 1950s and were also adopted by many nearby countries for their national flags, including Benin, Guinea, Ghana, Cameroon, and others.