Five African nations that changed flags since 2000 Flags serve as potent symbols of national identity, representing the values, history, and aspirations of a country.

The first African state to adopt a red, gold and green flag upon independence was Ghana in 1957.

A casual glance at the flags of Africa, makes it seem as if dozens of her countries hired a single, lazy designer who, instead of coming up with a bespoke flag for each nation, simply arranged the ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the ...

The Cooma-Monaro Shire Mayor defends a decision to continue flying an apartheid-era South African flag at Cooma's Avenue of Flags.

South African expats have called on a regional New South Wales council to update a flag on display from the apartheid era in time for Nelson Mandela's birthday.

The South African Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a ruling that declared "gratuitous" display of the nation's old apartheid-era flag a prosecutable offense.

Some of these countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal, São Tomé e Príncipe and Togo.

A flag artwork by David Hammons. The flag takes the stars and stripes design of the United States flag and replaces the red, white, and blue with green, red, and black, the colors of the Pan African ...

Two sisters brought the idea of raising the African American flag for Black History Month to Mayor Robert Sullivan's office.