Mali Nylon Flag

About Our Mali Nylon Flag

The design of Mali’s flag is simple, yet there is meaning behind each of the three colors used in the design. The colors were used to represent the fertility of the land, purity and mineral wealth, and the blood that was shed in the nation’s struggle for independence from France. Like many other African nations, Mali’s flag uses the traditional Pan-African colors. The flag has a vertical tricolor design with bands of green, yellow and red. The green is a symbol of the nation’s fertile lands. Yellow represents purity and the mineral wealth of Mali. Finally, red is symbolic of the lives that were given to earn the country’s freedom from the rule of the French. The nation also has a variant flag that includes the color black in the form of a stick figure centered in the flag with its arms raised to the sky.